The US government says these are the men who stole almost $5 million from a UAE bank.
The US Justice Department says the FBI found photos of the gang posing with the cash after they withdrew it from RAKBank accounts in just two hours and 20 minutes in December.
Other US government-released photos show them stacking up cash atop cans of drink, pictured, and posing with Rolex watches, a Mercedes SUV and a Porsche Panamera they bought with the stolen money.
The gang then allegedly pulled off the same scam in February, stealing $40 million from the Bank of Muscat in Oman, using ATMs around the world.
While only a portion was withdrawn from US ATMs, it was still the largest US cash robbery since the 1978 Lufthansa heist that featured in the movie ‘Goodfellas’.
The pictured photo, taken from one of the gang’s mobile phones, shows two suspects, Elvis Rafael Rodriguez and Emir Yasser Yeje, posing with $40,000 of RAKBank money withdrawn from New York ATMs.
The gang hired dozens of criminals around the world to withdraw the cash at the exact same time. By the time RAKBank could stop it, the gang had already shut down the operation and made off with $4.7 million.
The US Justice Department says the group hacked into the RAKBank’s third-party debit card servers in India, changing certain debit cards from ‘limited’ to ‘unlimited’ withdrawal. They then cloned cards and coordinated one day in which they asked criminals to withdraw as much as they could, as fast as they could.
The bank has put out a statement confirming no customers suffered financial loss as a result of the fraud. The investigation is continuing.
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