Rendered a gang of fraudsters harmless

Employees of the Interior Ministry and Federal Security Service suppressed the activity of a criminal group which has fraudulently way stolen the shares of major Russian companies.

The bandits managed to steal securities from “Gazprom” for 500 million rubles. Police arrested the gang leader scams and six of his associates, informs RBC referring to press-service of the MIA.

The suspects attempted to take possession of the shares of “Savings Bank” in the amount of 80 million rubles. Previously involved in the case managed to steal share in the amount of half a billion rubles of the “Gazprom”, a large Russian corporation .

Criminals were involved in their work all the infrastructure of bank and financial sector: banks, stock exchanges, brokerage and registrar companies. They were assisted by associates of the Baltic states, which produced fake passports of shareholders. Scam accomplices were Russian lawyers and notaries.

Over the offense of criminal case under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code “fraud on a large scale.” Security officials are searching for the accomplices of criminals.

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