A Brazilian national who confessed to stealing money through Republic Bank Limited using forged bank cards was yesterday fined a total of $310,000 and ordered deported.
Mariel Adriano Barbosa Leal, 52, was arraigned before Principal Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, where he confessed to charges of theft and conspiracy to defraud the Republic Bank Limited.
The first charge stated that on October 25, at Republic Bank Limited, Camp and Robb streets, Georgetown, he stole $100,000 from Republic Bank. It was also alleged that between October 25 and October 26, at the same location, with intent to defraud, he conspired with persons unknown, to forge eight Republic Bank ATM cards purporting to show that they were distributed by the bank. It was also alleged that on October 26, he attempted to steal $30,000 from Republic Bank.
