Lübeck - Three years and nine months imprisonment with a high penalty yesterday went before the Lübeck Regional Court, the trial of an ATM scam to an end. The Romanian to jail.
For the III. Large Trial Chamber, it was proved that the 37-year-old Costel A. had skimmed off as a member of an international gang operating in Esslingen and Lübeck data from debit cards, with which his accomplice then could access the accounts of unsuspecting bank customers. "Or as I call it plunder other accounts," the presiding judge Kai Schroeder said in his ruling.
With the penalty the board followed the request of the prosecutor. The defense of Costel A., he was sent forward by the backers just as ignorant accomplices, to test the spyware devices to the ATM, held the court for "absurd and unbelievable." The skimming devices (to skim cream off =) to the machine to install it, by far the most difficult and riskiest part of such a crime. "They were a band member and are punished as such have been," said Schroeder. In the cases Esslinger 38 banking customers to a total of 52 000 euros had been relieved. In Lübeck, flew to the fraud in time.
A. 's legal counsel, lawyer Alexander Elek, countered that the defendant's membership in a gang was not detected. She called for a suspended sentence for aiding and abetting a crime. Harsher sentence was added to well that the Romanian Costel A. had refused to reveal information about his associates. A. but insisted: "I chose wrong. What I have done, I'm sorry. "
Although A. Costel the years spent behind bars, the skimming problem remains acute: in 2007 only nine cases in Schleswig-Holstein is known, it was 2010, almost nine times as many: 79 acts, especially in the Lübeck area and East Holstein. "And we will continue to expect a further increase in case numbers," says Stefan Schnaut, spokesman for the State Criminal Police Office.
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