From the materials we have reviewed, it follows that Alexander Korablinov had his office on the 24th floor of the Federation Tower in the office of his stepfather’s company Blockchain Solutions, which was developing the Swap Wallet crypto-wallet, and helped Skrypnik look for clients to cash out cryptocurrency through the Garantex exchange . But he was officially employed as his stepfather’s assistant at his board of the International Law Agency “Vector of Law”.
At the preliminary investigation stage, Korablinov denied guilt. His defense insisted that the victim did not prove ownership of the allegedly stolen bitcoins, and witnesses incriminated Korablinov “in connection with hostile relations with his stepfather Skrypnik,” and also shifted “responsibility for his actions” to him.
The victim told investigators that he purchased cryptocurrency around 2017 and stored it in a Keepkey cold wallet. A month before the New Year 2021, he needed cash and decided to sell bitcoins, but it turned out that his hardware crypto wallet was not working due to the suspension of service by the developer. Then he decided to access his bitcoins through another application, the Electrum crypto wallet. He downloaded the application from the first link in Google search, entered the seed phrase and tried to transfer 3.5 bitcoins to his Binance exchange account. The translation was listed as being processed. After a while, he checked the transaction history and discovered that all 20 of his bitcoins had “gone” to an unknown address. And this is about $400,000 at that time. He turned to a special company, which tracked the path of the bitcoins – they were scattered across several addresses, then half of them ended up in the wallet of the Garantex exchange.
Let us note that at that time lawyer Skrypnik was wanted in the case of attempting to steal almost $12 million from banker Angela Sergeeva through the Arbitration Court of Chechnya.
Korablinov fully admitted his guilt in court and said that he bought access to a program on the darknet that imitated the operation of the Electrum crypto wallet. I installed a special telegram bot, received a link to a copy of the phishing site from the seller, launched an advertisement on Google for this site in search results, and waited. Soon the bot received the seed phrase of the victim’s wallet. Next, we connected my stepfather’s friend to cash out the received crypto through the Garantex exchange. We managed to cash out the first part of 11 cue balls. A friend brought it to Korablinov’s office on the 24th floor of the tower, where, by the way, according to the latter, there is also a reception room for a State Duma deputy, whose employees were included in one of the recordings together with Korablinov. The exchange blocked the next part of the bitcoins at the request of the victim’s representatives.
The Presnensky District Court of Moscow found Korablinov guilty of computer fraud, unlawful access to computer information and the use of malware (part 4 of article 159.6, part 2 of article 272, part 2 of article 273 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). In total, the court sentenced Korablinova to 2 years, 7 months in prison, recalculated the time served as “a day and a half” and released her in the hall. He also returned the seized Porsche Panamera GTS to him, since the damage to the victim was compensated in advance.
The prosecutor’s office initially appealed such a lenient sentence, but two weeks later they withdrew their appeal. The verdict came into force.
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As the Cheka-OGPU learned, the Presnensky Court of Moscow began considering the case of one of the leaders of the Blockchain Solutions company, Alexander Korablinov, the stepson of the famous lawyer Konstantin Skrypnik. He raised funds for a cryptocurrency fund, partly…
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