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BBC News
08-05-2025
- BBC News
Man jailed for £40,000 theft from cash machines across England
A man who travelled across England stealing about £40,000 from more than 500 cash machines has been jailed for four Ivascu, 40, worked alongside Andrei Matei, 35, to jam open the cash dispenser on the ATMs so they could take money from admitted 545 thefts from cash machines and criminal damage, and was sentenced at Leeds Crown Court on Thursday. Matei was jailed for two years in February after admitting similar charges. The Romanian nationals - Ivascu of Dagenham, London and Matei of Crumpsall, Manchester, will also face deportation once they are released. West Yorkshire Police said Ivascu caused damage valued at over £60,000 to the cash machines which he tampered admitted theft and criminal damage to 483 machines and was jailed for two years and three months when he appeared at Leeds Crown Court in February. Ivascu faced the same charges together with an additional 62 thefts and criminal damage relating to ATM incidents which took place in said Ivascu would carry out the process while Matei kept lookout and provided cover so that people could not see what was investigation into the pair's activities was launched by the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Organised Crime Unit (YHROCU) after a spate of thefts from cash machines in West officers from the YHROCU's Proactive Economic Crime Team soon established the pair were carrying out their activities all over the country in several police force areas. They were arrested in Nottingham in 2023 after CCTV footage showed them at hundreds of after the sentencing, economic crime investigator Neil Bottomley of the YHROCU's Proactive Economic Crime Team said: "We received reports of a number of incidents where two men were targeting cash points in Yorkshire, but it soon became very clear while we were piecing together their activities that they were active on a nationwide scale."The pair were committing thefts from ATMs across most of the country and leaving a trail of damage to the machines behind them."Several other forces assisted us as part of this investigation."Ivascu and Matei were nothing short of prolific and I'm pleased that we have been able to finally bring them to justice and put them behind bars."Three YHROCU officers were commended by the judge for their role in the pair committed offences in 27 of England's 40 force areas, including Avon & Somerset, Bedfordshire, Derbyshire, Dorset, Essex, Gloucestershire, Greater Manchester, Hampshire, Humberside, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Merseyside and the Metropolitan Police also targeted North Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, Northumbria, Nottinghamshire, South Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Thames Valley, Warwickshire, West Mercia, West Midlands, West Yorkshire and Wiltshire. Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
Yahoo
27-02-2025
- Yahoo
Man who stole cash from hundreds of ATMs jailed
A man who stole money from hundreds of cash machines across England has been jailed for more than two years. Andrei Matei stole more than £19,000 by using a tool to jam cash dispensers open, West Yorkshire Police said, allowing him to take money from inside. The 35-year-old Romanian national, of Failsworth, Greater Manchester, stole from more than 480 cash machines in locations including West Yorkshire, London, Wiltshire, Nottinghamshire and Berkshire, causing damage valued at £30,000. Appearing before Leeds Crown Court on Wednesday, Matei was sentenced to 27 months in prison after admitting 483 charges of theft and criminal damage. He will also be deported once he has been released, the force said. The investigation started in West Yorkshire, but officers from the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Organised Crime Unit later established Matei and an accomplice were also targeting cash machines further afield. Matei, of Oldham Road, was arrested in Nottinghamshire in September 2023, police said. During 2023, he targeted machines at supermarkets, garages and on shopping streets in Huddersfield, Bradford, Nottingham, Newbury, Salisbury, Bath, Bristol, Devizes, London and Stopsley. Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North. West Yorkshire Police
BBC News
27-02-2025
- BBC News
Man who stole money from cash machines across England jailed
A man who stole money from hundreds of cash machines across England has been jailed for more than two years. Andrei Matei stole more than £19,000 by using a tool to jam cash dispensers open, West Yorkshire Police said, allowing him to take money from inside. The 35-year-old Romanian national, of Failsworth, Greater Manchester, stole from more than 480 cash machines in locations including West Yorkshire, London, Wiltshire, Nottinghamshire and Berkshire, causing damage valued at £30, before Leeds Crown Court on Wednesday, Matei was sentenced to 27 months in prison after admitting 483 charges of theft and criminal damage. He will also be deported once he has been released, the force investigation started in West Yorkshire, but officers from the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Organised Crime Unit later established Matei and an accomplice were also targeting cash machines further afield. Matei, of Oldham Road, was arrested in Nottinghamshire in September 2023, police 2023, he targeted machines at supermarkets, garages and on shopping streets in Huddersfield, Bradford, Nottingham, Newbury, Salisbury, Bath, Bristol, Devizes, London and to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
