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Hakkasan swindler to pay back just £200

A barman at a Michelin-starred Chinese restaurant who fleeced diners of thousands of pounds in a credit card fraud has been ordered to pay back £200.

Alexander Mail, 29, of Camden copied customers' details with a skimming machine at Hakkasan.

He was paid £6,400 to forward data from about 1,000 victims to associates who cloned the cards and stole at least £30,000 around the world, Southwark crown court heard. He was jailed for 15 months in October last year and is now penniless, surviving on benefits.

Judge James Wadsworth QC agreed he could pay back just £200, at £10 a week, from 18 March, or face seven days in jail.

Mail was caught after customs officers arrested a man carrying several cloned American Express cards on the Eurostar.

Mail admitted having an article for use in fraud between January and September 2007.

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