Bank scamers awaits sentence

CHENGDU: Three people who used an automatic teller machine to deposit 120,000 yuan ($17,600) in counterfeit banknotes and then withdrew more than 80,000 yuan in genuine notes were brought before the Chongqing intermediate court.

The three, Qiu Guo from Chongqing, and Yu Sheng and Su Poyu, both from Sichuan province, were charged with forgery and bank theft.

They will be sentenced soon, a court employee told China Daily yesterday.