Vietnam deports Bulgarians who stole money from ATMs Three Bulgarians who have stolen money from ATMs by using fake ATM cards in Nha Trang, Quang Nam, and Da Nang. Tuoi Tre Police in south-central Khanh Hoa Province have issued administrative fines to three Bulgarian men and expelled them for stealing at least US$5,230 from ATMs by using fake ATM cards. The men are Korneev Valentin Nilolov, 53, Genov Aleksandar Simeonov, 44, and Dimitrov Iliyan Plamenov, 26. They were arrested on September 8 in the province’s Nha Trang City. The detainees confessed that they had withdrawn VND111 million ($5,230), including VND96 million from the Nha Trang Branch of the Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) and VND15 million from the Nha Trang Branch of the Vietnam Technological and Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Techcombank) since earlier this month.   On searching their hotel rooms, police seized 214 fake ATM cards, US$13,000 and VND105 million ($4,950) in cash, and many tools and equipment related to their offenses. The stealers told investigators that had secretly installed equipment such as cameras and digital video recorders at several ATMs run by the above banks to steal information from ATM cardholders. They then forged and used fake cards to appropriate money from many ATMs not only in Nha Trang but also in Quang Nam Province and Da Nang City. Provincial police said they have deposited the stolen money recovered from the stealers into a specific bank account and are trying to identify the victims of the stealing. According to the stealers, most of their victims are foreigners. A similar case occurred in Hai Phong City in March when four Chinese nationals counterfeited credit cards and used them to make bank transfers worth US$228,000 and withdrew $187,500 in cash within a 10-day period, from March 16 to 26. In another case, the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court on April 26 sentenced Malaysian national Lim Soon Ling, 55, to seven years in jail for using fake credit cards to appropriate a total of VND451 million ($21,700). TUOITRENEWS