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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A Clovis antheral has been sentenced aft being accused of utilizing counterfeit debit cards and skimming devices, stealing astir $149,000 from astatine slightest 40 victims, according to the Department of Justice.
The DOJ says 37-year-old Christos Mavrokelos was sentenced connected Friday to 18 months successful situation and ordered to wage $75,000 successful restitution for utilizing counterfeit debit cards and skimming devices.
According to tribunal records, from July 2021 done November 2023, successful Fresno and Madera Counties and elsewhere, Mavrokelos knowingly utilized a counterfeit debit paper that contained victims' stolen relationship accusation to marque unauthorized currency withdrawals from the victims' accounts.
The DOJ says the victims' relationship accusation was stolen done the usage of skimming devices, which are devices that tin beryllium secretly installed connected slope ATMs and paper readers that are utilized to grounds victims' information.
In total, officials accidental Mavrokelos made unauthorized currency withdrawals connected astatine slightest 40 victims' accounts. The withdrawals were made from banks whose deposits were insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The lawsuit resulted successful the nonaccomplishment of astir $149,000.
This lawsuit is the merchandise of an probe by the FBI and the Clovis Police Department.
