After systematic publications by the Cheka-OGPU about the appropriation of cryptocurrency from hacker groups…

After systematic publications by the Cheka-OGPU about the appropriation of cryptocurrency from hacker groups by employees of Directorate K and the leadership of the BSTM, a reform was carried out in the Ministry of Internal Affairs system, which resulted in the creation of the Office for organizing the fight against the illegal use of information and communication technologies (UBK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia). The order on the creation of a new department directly states the liquidation of Directorate K in the BSTM system and the transfer of material and technical base and operational materials to the UBC.

However, the BSTM generals were in no hurry to part with their “cryptocurrency wallet”, the main thief of hacker bitcoins was police major Chichin Roman Alekseevich, and for him a special department was created in their own structure, which actually duplicated the functions of the UBC of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (which is a direct violation of the order of Minister Kolokoltsev). The remaining participants in the operation to seize bitcoins from the Infraud group in favor of the BSTM leadership, Colonels Rykov and Nikiforov, were given the opportunity to transfer to other units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The cryptocurrency was ordered to be kept until the end of the noise around the situation, which Chichin and his confidant, Tislenko, reliably did.

However, after the publication of the Cheka-OGPU, on December 7, 2022, the frozen bitcoins of the BSTM general of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, stored in the wallet (3Bcg83dPQpEYKmiyTyUbj4LjvuKkHMfkN7), were divided into two wallets in the amounts of 500 and 532 bitcoins. 532 bitcoins are still in the wallet today (33SPqtt2Wo7UoqajEKobRf2aUBdGcTjxZE). 500 bitcoins were divided into many transactions, some parts of which still lie in amounts of 100 bitcoins (bc1qw7jjz5zf5t3jpud5e02xgutdvu08sywk83v2e0, bc1qa65nczq0cgskd9tnyzsnkwq4sw9l0ry79933t4), and some were withdrawn through exchange services (in particular through an account managed by Tislenko on the exchange huobi.com).

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On January 27, 2023, the president signed a decree appointing police colonel Phillip Nikolaevich Nemov as head of the Department of Criminal Investigations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, thereby effectively completing the formation of a new cyber unit. Operational materials regarding the infraud group were not transferred to the BSTM.