SAN DIEGO -- A San Diego man who obtained other people's personal identification numbers from sources in Russia and used the stolen numbers to withdraw $371,000 from bank accounts pleaded guilty Monday to debit card fraud and conspiracy to launder money.

Mikhail M. Tuknov, 28, faces up to 30 years in federal prison and up to $750,000 in fines when he is sentenced May 26 by U.S. District Judge John Houston.

In connection with his guilty plea, Tuknov admitted that he obtained personal identifying information for bank accounts of actual people from sources in Russia and distributed those numbers to an associate in the Dominican Republic.

The associate then used the numbers to encode blank debit card plastics and delivered them to other criminal associates in New York City, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Mitch Dembin.

The New York associates used the fake debit cards to fraudulently access the bank accounts tied to the cards at ATM machines and withdrew cash, the prosecutor said.

The proceeds were sent to the Russian sources, who paid Tuknov his commission and sent new numbers to him to generate more cash, according to Dembin.

Tuknov admitted that between August 2005 and March 2006, he moved approximately 1,044 fraudulent debit card numbers and 1,045 related PIN numbers to his associates, resulting in losses to the issuing banks of about $371,000.