NEW YORK: A 46-year-old technician whose job of refilling ATMs proved just too tempting was jailed in the United States on Friday after being caught trying to flee the country with bundles of cash.
Ionel Faina was arrested in Connecticut in January after mailing almost 130,000 dollars he had stolen to an address in Bucharest. He was believed to be on his way to New York's JFK airport for a flight to Romania when the car he was in was pulled over by police.
Investigators said Faina had an air ticket to Romania and more than 13,000 dollars in his clothing and travel bags when he was stopped. Faina was sentenced to 18 months in jail and ordered to pay a 4,000-dollar fine. Prosecutors did not disclose Faina's nationality.
