In the period from 2019 to 2022, having acquired influential patrons who guaranteed complete impunity, the group’s activities in pumping crypto assets into the real world acquired industrial proportions. The structure of the organization became more complex and began to represent not at all a group of 4 amateur programmers, as law enforcement agencies believed, but an entire criminal community operating not only on the Internet, but also in the real world.
The organization has more than 4 structural divisions (a security service consisting of active employees of special services at the regional and federal levels, a cybercrime division, a division for legalization, fraud and raider takeovers, theft of bank card data and other payment systems, as well as cash withdrawals), directed by Mark Bergman.
Ongoing criminal activities, in exchange for monthly payments and periodic bribes for high-ranking officials, were covered by the all-powerful intelligence officers, providing complete external security. These same persons monitored the internal security of the organization, immediately sending the Infraud members themselves (who could undermine the group’s activities if internal financial disputes arose) to places not so remote, while ensuring that information about the criminal community from former accomplices would not be disclosed and would not lead to imprisonment of gang leaders.
One of the striking examples of such a well-functioning scheme for eliminating elements dangerous to beneficiaries is Mark Bergman’s direct relative, his brother, professional hacker Hasanbekov Sultan, who has long been a member of TIO and a partner of these individuals. A conflict arose between Mark and Sultan; as a result, Gasanbekov was detained at the behest of Rizaev-Bergman, but this had no effect on The Infraud Organization itself and its members.
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