Overview

• Catalin-Marius Graur received a 120-month federal prison term and was ordered to pay $165,697 in restitution for installing skimmers on ATMs and point-of-sale terminals to steal thousands of EBT card numbers.
• Marius Marian pleaded guilty to bank fraud, illegal reentry and asylum fraud after admitting he used skimmer devices to withdraw $507,916 from 601 unique EBT accounts between March 2024 and June 2025.
• Investigators determined that Graur collaborated with a transnational criminal network in Romania, sending over 36,000 stolen EBT card numbers to accomplices for encoding onto counterfeit cards.
• Marian confessed that he knowingly falsified his April 2023 asylum application by concealing a 2019 bank fraud conviction and prior deportation before illegally reentering the United States.
• Marian’s sentencing hearing is scheduled for October 20 before Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin, and he faces up to 30 years in prison plus fines of up to $1 million and additional penalties for his immigration and asylum violations.