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In another development, documents obtained from prosecutors in New Zealand show Esquivel-Lemus and Patroni-Hernandez arrived in Auckland in June 2010 claiming they planned to hike and surf. The pair fell under suspicion when a series of point of sales terminals were stolen from retail stores in and replaced with compromised ones in a manner similar to the Safeway thefts in the Lower Mainland.

The pair were caught along with another Canadian when they picked up a package full of skimming equipment mailed from New Westminster, B.C..

And last month, an Australian judge sentenced Navanaath Ponnambalam — the other man arrested in Ontario in 2007 — to eight years in jail after he was found guilty of stealing more than $400,000 from 4,500 bank customers in Western Australia.

A jury found he tampered with point-of-sales terminals at McDonald's restaurants in 2009.

No criminal records

Stabler says members of the group are deliberately chosen.

"They are picked in Montreal on the basis that they don't have a record. All the people that we've had convicted have never — as far as we know — committed another crime," Stabler said. "So they come before the courts with no record. I say to the court strongly that this is obviously organized crime and they're facilitating it. And they tend to get sentenced accordingly, instead of what I try to say 'No — they know they're helping organized crime.' "

According to details entered in the New Zealand court case against Esquivel-Lemus and Patroni-Hernandez, the scam in Canada operated for four years and cost in excess of $100 million. An average of 200 point-of-sales terminals were stolen from Canadian retailers every month in 2008.

In New Zealand, the men were charged with participating in an organized crime group. Similar legislation exists in Canada and carries much heavier sentences than those handed out so far for those convicted in the "tsunami fraud" ring. The maximum sentence for them has been two years less a day.

"I've been doing this for many years now and as technology's improved, the pace and volume of this crime is just going up exponentially every year. It's extremely easy, it's extremely fast, extremely lucrative," Stabler said.

"The chance of really getting caught is low and the penalties are improving but they vary considerably. So — just from a street level point of view — if you steal $300,000 and you get 18 months or two years less a day in jail plus you're out on parole in one third of that — was it worth it? As a criminal you're probably going to say yes."