{"id":23041,"date":"2018-12-31T02:05:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T06:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=23041"},"modified":"2018-12-31T02:05:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T06:05:24","slug":"bulgarian-allegedly-stole-25k-from-atm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/bulgarian-allegedly-stole-25k-from-atm\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulgarian allegedly stole 25k from ATM"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Police over the weekend charged Mark Vas Nelsen, a Bulgarian\/Canadian citizen with stealing more than 25 thousand dollars from a local bank.<\/p>

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The authorities did not name the bank but said the man used fraudulent means to obtain the funds from the ATM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The alleged offences to place over the period of one month from November 27 to December 27, 2018.<\/p>

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Nelsen was arrested last Friday after police searched his hotel and found what appears to be a machine used in the act. Several credit cards were also found.<\/p>

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Earlier this year, another Bulgarian, Martin Dimitrov Dachenski was charged with larceny in connection with another ATM fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was ordered by the court to repay close to 25 thousand EC dollars which he stole from different ABMs.<\/p>

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