Dear Clients,
Large police and Europol action, searches at 16 locations in Belgrade: Several persons arrested, suspected of defrauding at least 200 foreign citizens.
Members of the Ministry of Interior, High-Tech Crime Department, and Department for Suppression of High-Tech Crime in cooperation with the Special Prosecution for High-Tech Crime have started the second part of the international operation “Infiniti” regarding complex financial fraud on the Internet, and in cooperation with the judicial mechanism for the cooperation of the European Union “Europol”, as well as the International Command of the Federal Police of Australia, arrested 16 persons.
The suspects are charged with luring at least 200 foreign citizens into false online financial transactions, defrauding them of a total amount exceeding 20 million US dollars.
In today’s operation of searches conducted at 16 locations in Belgrade and other places in Serbia, more than 130,000 euros in cash, 70,000 euros in cryptocurrencies, multiple accounts with cryptocurrencies, as well as several cars, one apartment, while the origin of other properties is actively being investigated, were seized.
During the first part of the operation conducted in January this year, during the search of several locations, especially the premises of the companies “Olympus Prime” and “Asgard” LLC from Belgrade, the police found significant data and evidence, the analysis of which established reasonable suspicion that employees of those companies have damaged more than 127,000 citizens of other countries in the total amount of material damage estimated at more than 7 billion US dollars, and the final amount of damage is still being determined.
The suspects have been detained for up to 48 hours and will, along with criminal charges, be brought before the competent prosecutor’s office.
We closely monitor the efforts of law enforcement and justice organizations in the former Yugoslavian countries in their efforts to combat cybercrime. We consistently verify whether this case bears any direct or indirect connection to the EGC case.
Zoran Miljakovic
Attorney at Law
Pripadnici Ministarstva unutrašnjih poslova, Službe za borbu protiv visokotehnološkog kriminala, Odeljenja za suzbijanje visokotehnolškog kriminala u saradnji sa Posebnim tužilaštvom za visokotehnološki kriminal započeli su drugi deo međunarodne akcije „Infiniti“ povodom složenih finansijskih prevara na Internetu, i u saradnji sa pravosudnim mehanizmom za saradnju Evropske unije „Evrodžast“, kao i Međunarodnom komandom Federalne policije Australije uhapsili 16 osoba.
Osumnjičeni se terete da su navođenjem na lažne finansijske transakcije na internetu do sada prevarili najmanje 200 stranih državljana u ukupnom iznosu koji prelazi 20 miliona američkih dolara.
U današnjoj akciji pretresom na 16 lokacija u Beogradu i drugim mestima u Srbiji, oduzeto je više od 130.000 evra u gotovini, 70.000 evra u kriptovalutama, više računa sa kripto-valutama kao i nekoliko automobila, jedan stan, dok se poreklo drugih nekretnina aktivno proverava.
Policija je tokom prvog dela akcije koji je sproveden u januaru ove godine prilikom pretresa više lokacija, a posebno prostorija preduzeća „Olimpus Prajm“ i „Asgard“ d.o.o. iz Beograda, pronašla značajne podatke i dokaze, čijom analizom je utvrđena osnovana sumnja da su zaposleni u tim preduzećima u proteklih nekoliko godina oštetili više od 127.000 građana drugih država u ukupnom iznosu materijalne štete koja se procenjuje u iznosu većem od 7 milijardi američkih dolara, a konačni iznos štete se još utvrđuje.
Osumnjičenima je određeno zadržavanje do 48 sati i oni će, uz krivičnu prijavu, biti privedeni nadležnom tužilaštvu.
Mi pažljivo pratimo aktivnosti policije i pravosudnih organa u državama bivše Jugoslavije na suzbijanju syber kriminla. Uvek proveravamo da li ovaj slučaj ima direktne ili indirektne veze sa slučajem EGCM.
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