Judge says Romanians have put him off using cashpoints

A judge said he may never use a cash machine again after a Romanian fraudster was convicted of helping a gang to distribute skimming devices across the world from a garden shed. Alexandru Sovu, 39, designed ‘skimmers’ and ATM fronts which were sold to criminals in New York, Jamaica, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Ghana and the Philippines, in a £3m scam. Sovu absconded during his trial after he was granted bail and was convicted of fraud charges in his absence at…