The so-called Romanian mafia, which mainly deals with the cloning of bank cards, has dozens of members, important employees of the gang led by Florian Tudor The sharkfiled by the US authorities.
Among the operators of this band Mexico that have already been arrested, there are about 20 suspects in it U.S, among them the other Florian: Florian Claudiu Martin, referred to by the Romanian media as “brother of The shark”, And who was arrested in Los Cabos, Baja California, on October 10, 2019. He is currently detained in New York.
In Mexican government intelligence documents in the possession of MILLENNIUM, Florian Claudiu Martin, belongs to the family ties of The shark like his brother.
They arrested him along with seven other people Mexico, one in Italy and 14 in the United States, as part of a United States Department of Justice operation against a transnational bank card cloning organization. In Los Cabos, the Mexican authorities 25 electronic devices were seized
He is currently negotiating with the New York City Prosecutor’s Office to collaborate with information in exchange for benefits in his criminal trial. He had a remote hearing on February 5, but agreed to postpone it for a month to enter into negotiations and access new evidence that would be against him.
Judged by US court documents MILLENNIUM between 2014 and September 2019, Florian Claudiu Martin teamed up with at least twenty people commit fraud with electronic access equipment, by placing “skimmers” in ATMs in the United States to clone cards. He is also accused of identity theft, money laundering and bank fraud, all through the transnational organization he led, which is said to have generated losses of $ 20 million, by affecting about 30,000 people in 50 banking institutions.
In the United States, his band operated in New York and 17 other states, such as Connecticut, Tennessee, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Florida, and Pennsylvania. His criminal actions include: importing, exporting and installing the “skimmers”, or uninstall Wash through bank accounts, properties, businesses and cash.
The file shows that Florian Claudiu Martin was in charge of the skimmings and money laundering from Mexico. Mircea Constantinescu, second in command, was in charge of sending and receiving skimming devices. That was discovered in 2018, for example sent a point of sale terminal to clone bank cards Pennsylvania to VeracruzBoth were arrested on the same day, only Constantinescu was arrested inside Miami, Florida.
Like him FBI In the United States, like the Mexican security authorities, they also have lawsuits against it hackers more importantly, the so-called Romanian mafia was able to steal millions of pesos in a few hours and operate remotely and discreetly, such as Aníbal Alexander Canelón Aguirre which the FBI designates as the one responsible for “developing the malware allowing remote access to ATMs during the hackThey identify him as the founder of the group hackers Linux Users of Venezuela, which he created in 1999 with the group of Venezuelans Alejandro Borrego Grateral, Alexandra del Valle Quintero Bazán, Ángel Emiro Chacín Fuenmayor and Ángel Evaristo Quiñones Laffont.
Aníbal was arrested and prosecuted in December 2015 for crimes against the public faith and uses of scholars in Mexico City.
As part of this group hackers Venezuelans also appear Elou Yoel Moreno González, José Alejandro Osario Echegaray and Isaac Rafael Jorge Romero who were arrested in the United States in November 2017.
The Mexican Government Security Cabinet Intelligence Document, reviewed by MILLENNIUM, points out that these alleged criminals were linked by the FBI “because they appeared in video footage using a telephone and a mini-keyboard to manipulate ATMs.” Some members (of the band hackers) lived in the United States, and at the beginning of the arrests they moved to Mexico to continue working.
As is the case Aslhy Javier Galeano Basurto that, according to the FBI, he fled the United States with Wester Eduardo Duagrte.
Another of those mentioned is Sandu Ioan Laurientiu, Carabuela, who spent a year in prison in Las Vegas, Nevada, was accused of bank card cloning and data theft. After his release, he returned to Mexico with the Romanian gang and was arrested again in December 2019, this time for an alleged attempted murder.
Along with him, Zoltan Daniel Piculeata, also charged with attempted murder, and Aurelian Marcu, charged with theft of information and cloning of bank cards from ATMs in Quintana Roo.
The National Security Cabinet intelligence report highlights that one of the other Florian Tudor fundamental operators detained in the United States, Pablo Mauricio Amezcua Dorador of whom ‘the DEA identified as the connection between Cancun and Romania illegal drug trafficking and human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitationHe was arrested in Miami in August 2019 for confiscating thousands of dollars and heroin.
His links with the Romanian Mafia originated while he was an inspection director in the municipality of Benito Juárez, when the Superior Audit of the State of Quintana Roo investigated him ‘for inconsistencies in the 2009 fiscal year of the public account, as reportedly his staff leaked data about Cancun businessmen ”to the Romanian mafia
The report indicates that Amezcua “confessed in Panama that he was involved in money laundering with investments in real estate development.”
With all this network of hackers and operators deployed in Mexico and the United States, authorities have traced that Romanian mafia bands began operating from other countries where they feel safer.
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