Romanian crime gang member who has been posing as a cop for years is now ‘very remorseful’

A Romanian thief with previous convictions across Europe came Britain to pose as a police officer and steal from an unsuspecting Malaysian family, a court heard. Nicolae Macovei, 60, flashed a fake police ID card and ordered his victims to show him their passports and cash hours after he arrived in the capital earlier this year. Macovei and three other men lay in west London looking for vulnerable tourists to target on 5 March. Laura Jeffrey, prosecuting, told how Macovei…