Detained a group of cyber criminals

According to statement of the Interior Ministry said in a statement, Azerbaijan’s law enforcement forces have detained a group of cyber criminals, APA reports.

The special measures carried out by the employees of the Interior Ministry’s Main Department for Combating Organized Crime revealed that Baku residents Rustam Ansarov and Firudin Alakbarov entered into a criminal relationship with city resident Madat Aliyev, a specialist in information technologies, and created a cybercriminal group in order to illegally write off bank credit debts.

In turn, Madat Aliyev, keeping in touch with illegal hacker groups abroad and receiving their support, have illegally interfered with databases of customers of Argentina’s Banco Frances and Bulgaria’s CIA banks with the help of special software, the statement said.

By making online payments from the accounts of the customers of the aforesaid banks in those countries, Aliyev then fully repaid the debts of Alakbarov and Ansarov in Azerbaijan in an illegal way, causing a great deal of damage to citizens using the services of the aforementioned banks.

During the inspection of the computers used by Aliyev, electronic and other pieces of evidence useful for the case were collected.

A criminal case has been launched on the fact, investigation is ongoing.

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