AC-2025-LON-000375 - [2025] EWHC 2562 (Admin)

The Applicant participated in an organised criminal group for the purposes of committing the crime of fraudulent withdrawals of cash. He is described as “leader of the group” who “took care” of the procurement of the necessary electronic components, ordered the manufacture of relevant items and owned the equipment, software and hardware used. The conduct is said to be “skimming activities on the territory of Germany and France”. The card details were used to make fraudulent cash withdrawals in the USA, Colombia and Morocco. On 11 January 2014, when the Applicant’s home was searched, bank card identification data for the purpose of making forgeries and unauthorised withdrawals was found.

The overall sentence resulted from the reduction of a merged sentence of 8 years to one of 6 years and 6 months. This sentence incorporated the activation of a suspended sentence of 3 years imprisonment imposed following convictions in 2011. These related to the possession of a device which could be fitted to an ATM terminal to obtain card details and possession of stolen bank card numbers and bank cards.

The Applicant’s extradition was previously sought pursuant to a warrant for the same matters issued on 15 January 2016 and certified on 22 January 2016. His extradition was ordered but he was subsequently discharged on 14 December 2017 because of an insufficient prison conditions assurance.