The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) joined forces with Romanian law enforcement to arrest 48 people suspected to have ties with an organized crime group engaged in ATM skimming and money laundering in California, the FBI announced Dec. 4.
Many of the people and Romanian locations targeted in the three-year international investigation are suspected of being associated with Florian Tudor, an alleged leader of an ATM skimming organization known as the Riviera Maya Gang, based in Cancún, Mexico.