International crime gang member fails in bid to reduce sentence

Daniel Munteanu, a 32-year-old Romanian national resident in Co Meath, has failed in his Court of Appeal challenge against a six-and-a-half-year custodial sentence. Munteanu pleaded guilty to ten counts of theft totalling €121,800 from 52 Bank of Ireland accounts between September 2018 and March 2019. The offences involved the use of cloned bank cards to withdraw funds from ATMs across multiple counties including…