A Bucharest court sentenced on Friday six members of the so-called Riviera-Maya Gang to prison
A Bucharest court sentenced on Friday six members of the so-called Riviera-Maya Gang to prison terms between three and 10 years for setting up a large-scale skimming operation in Mexico
Led by Florian Tudor, aka The Shark, – who remains at large in Mexico – the gang compromised up to 100 ATM machines along Mexico’s Riviera Maya, in Cancun, Sayulita, Puerto Vallarta, and Tijuana to steal credit card details from tourists and withdraw money from their accounts.
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The six were found guilty of attempted murder, extortion, setting up an organized crime group, illegal possession of a gun, and driving without a license.
Tudor was conjointly indicated, however, he remains in North American country and prosecutors need to file a warrant in absentia, local media reported.
The gang members were placed on trial in Jan last year with prosecutors claiming that Tudor’s criminal cluster could also be nearly a thousand men strong.
Last year, Elemento Lab, Mexicanos Contra la Corrupción y la Impunidad (MCCI), and Rise Project printed an investigation that revealed details of the prosecution’s accusations against Tudor and his group.
Meanwhile, enforcement investigators complete that the gang was chargeable for 12% of a contraband skimming market value a calculable 2 billion dollars. abundant of the purloined cash the members allegedly funneled into the property in North American country and Rumania through corporations they controlled.
Three of Tudor’s associates were on Fri found guilty of attempting to kill Sorinel Marcu, who was once Tudor’s right hand. The ‘Shark’ and his muscle had a separation over cash and jealousy.
On Gregorian calendar month 2, 2018, Marcu was outside a DHL workplace in an urban center once the 3 convicts injured him multiple times. Marcu’s spleen was later removed at an urban center hospital as a result of his injuries.
Tudor was indicted with tried murder at the side of the three convicts. once contacted by OCCRP in 2020, he denied any of the allegations and claimed that he was a legitimate businessman.
“I am not a criminal and I never will be,” Tudor said. “I have never killed anyone and I have never ordered anyone killed.”
In February of 2020, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) asked Mexican authorities to investigate Tudor’s organized crime network.
Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) launched a financial investigation, tracking the gang’s properties and transactions. The UIF, in collaboration with Mexico’s Attorney General’s office, discovered transactions between at least eight companies headquartered in Mexico and one in Romania.
In early February this year, the UIF froze the accounts of seventy-nine folks and corporations believed to be coupled to the group. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador asked the head of the money Intelligence Unit (UIF) to gift a full report on The geographical region Maya Gang, once the accounts were frozen.
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