Romanian conman who was kicked out of Britain for ATM scam SNEAKS to UK illegally and gets caught doing same offence AGAIN

A ROMANIAN conman who was kicked out of Britain after fitting card skimming devices on cash machines has been caught doing it AGAIN after returning to the UK illegally.

Varga Viotel Vasile, was sent back home last December after completing his 16 month-jail sentence.

But last month, the 30-year-old was spotted by a member of the public fitting a skimming device on an ATM at a supermarket in Huddersfield, West Yorks.

Back in court, Vasile, who was living in Salford, Greater Manchester, admitted being in breach of the deportation order and having articles for the use in fraud.

He was jailed for two years and four months for the latest scam.

Prosecutor Louise Pryke told Leeds Crown Court that Vasile had got out of a car which another man was driving.

The skimming device consisted of a small camera, a card reader and a false front to disguise their capture of PIN numbers and card details for cloning later.
A witness, who saw Vasile being driven away, took the car registration and called the police.

The car, which had been hired in Manchester was then stopped.
Inside the vehicle a list of postcodes of all the locations of cash point dispensers in the Huddersfield and Liverpool, Merseyside, area was recovered.

Miss Pryke said Vasile lied claiming he was simply in Yorkshire for a job.

His previous convictions in the UK included burglary and theft.

His previous skimming offences, which led to his deportation, had included targeting a Lloyds branch in Dartmouth, Devon.
Mitigating Jeremy Barton said he had originally travelled to the UK intending to get work either as a mechanic or in construction but that had proved more difficult than he thought.

He had got into debt and was approached about the skimming operation and became involved because of his financial problems.

Judge Geoffrey Marson QC said the operation was planned and sophisticated.
He told Vasile: “You no doubt hoped quite dishonestly to deprive decent, ordinary, hard-working people of funds from their bank accounts.”
The judge said he hoped Vasile would again be deported.

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