FBI smashes two Bulgarian crime rings in Las Vegas - report - Foreign - The Sofia Echo: "FBI in the United States has smashed two Bulgarian crime rings accused of defrauding Las Vegas and Phoenix area car dealers out of $1.6 million, in addition to skimming ATM machines worth more than $700,000, the Las Vegas Review Journal reported on May 25 2010.
According to the report, a total of 11 people from the two rings were arrested and subsequently charged in three separate indictments in federal court following a two-year FBI investigation involving court-approved wiretaps.
In recent years, authorities in New Zealand, Australia, the US and other countries have reported of the scourge of the 'skimming' scheme, particularly from eastern European crime rings, many of which were organised by Bulgarians.
During the federal court hearing on May 24, assistant US attorney Kathleen Bliss insisted that US citizen Dimitar Dimitrov be kept behind bars.
Bliss said FBI wiretaps show that Dimitrov, a convicted felon in Bulgaria and the US, would be a flight risk and a danger to the community if released from federal custody, the report said."
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