4 Bulgarians face sentencing today

It is understood that a translator for the accused men is expected to leave the country soon and the court would have to find a replacement. None of the four speak English.

The issue of sourcing a translator for the case was raised at the beginning of court proceedings last month when prosecutors were told of the difficulty in sourcing a translator.

The case was stalled until a translator arrived from St Lucia.

This translator is scheduled to return home soon which would leave the Arima cases in abeyance until a replacement is found.

Magistrate Charles remanded the men into custody and ordered to return before her today for facts and sentencing.

Two of the Bulgarians, Toncho Tonchev and Dimitri Georgiev were arrested last month at a bank in Price Plaza, Piarco after bank customers reported seeing people tampering with one of the bank’s ATM machines.

The other two were arrested at a guest house in Maraval in relation to a credit and ATM debit card skimming ring.