Eight people accused of running a bank-card cloning scam were further detained in custody last night after a judge refused to rule on bail applications because of doubts over their identities.
The seven Romanian asylum-seekers and a Romanian-born Irish citizen are due back in the Dublin District Court this morning when lawyers will make a second attempt to secure their release.
All eight are charged under Section 2 of the Criminal Damage Act 1991 with interfering with bank data at ATMs on O'Connell Street in Dublin between August 1st and September 4th this year.
They were arrested on Tuesday at two addresses in Dublin where bank-card scanning equipment and several thousand pounds were found.
Mr Catalin Tatarasanu (40), and his wife, Daniella (28), were arrested at their home at Faulkner Terrace, Kilmainham, along with a second man, Mr David Robert, who is in his 20s. The other five, arrested close to the city centre, were Mr Lucian Mitrache (19), Ms Monica Horvat (17), Ms Christina Borcea (18), Mr Adrian Timpu (22) and Mr Ifrim Costel (20).
Det Sgt Robert McNulty, of Store Street station, told the court there were objections to bail in all eight cases.
Judge David Anderson said he could not properly consider the bail applications without satisfactory independent evidence of the identities, addresses and ties with this country of the accused. He adjourned the cases until this morning.