Hotel porter jailed for bank fraud organised on Facebook

A hotel porter who was recruited on social media to open multiple bank accounts for Romanian fraudsters was jailed for 21 months today (Mon). Ionut Lopu, 28, moved to the UK from Romania in 2014 to find work as a transport engineer, but ended up working as a linen porter at the Double Tree Hotel in Chelsea. In December 2015, he responded to a scheme advertised to Romanian nationals on Facebook to open bank accounts using fraudulent identity cards in…