Did this bank cashier get the sack?

A 21-YEAR-OLD Romanian man was engaged in "skillful theft" by confusing bank cashiers while exchanging money, Sligo Court heard.

The man was said to be "part of a machine that was robbing banks and sending money out of the country." And although he had no obvious source of income, he was able to fly in and out of Brussels as well as produce thousands of euro whenever ordered by the court to do so.

Rindas Horobas, Monlea Grove, Firhouse, Tallaght, Dublin 24, was fined €1,000 on a charge that on June 7th last at Bank of Ireland, Stephen Street, Sligo, he induced a bank teller to exchange £1,200 into euro equivalent, then requested €50 notes and then wanted it exchanged into £50 Sterling, and in doing so retained €700, deceiving the bank of that amount.

He was also fined €1,000 on a charge that on June 8th last at Bank of Ireland, Diamond, Carndonagh, Donegal, he induced a teller to exchange £920 Sterling into euro, and afterwards wanted €1,000 in Sterling "with the Queen's head", and retained €550, deceiving the bank of that amount.

The day prior to Sligo Court, he had appeared in Carrick on Shannon court.

Sligo court was told that the defendant was "operating a threecard trick".