Romanian Extradited to US for Role in Hacking Scheme 17 Years Ago
A Romanian national was recently extradited to the United States for his role in a cybercrime scheme carried out 17 years ago, the Justice Department announced this week.
The suspect, 53-year-old Gavril Sandu, was arrested in Romania in January 2026 and was extradited to the US in late April.
According to the DOJ, Sandu was indicted by a federal grand jury in 2017 on conspiracy to commit bank fraud and bank fraud. However, his alleged crimes took place even earlier, between May 2009 and October 2010.
Sandu and others allegedly hacked into small businesses’ VoIP systems and deployed scripts designed to contact financial institution customers and trick them into handing over sensitive personal and financial information, including login credentials, and payment card numbers and PINs.
The man’s contribution to this vishing operation included using the stolen information to clone payment cards and acting as a money mule who withdrew funds...
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