The Cheka-OGPU was the first to write about a special operation against carders from The Infraud Organization…

The Cheka-OGPU was the first to write about a special operation against carders from The Infraud Organization, who had been hunted by the FBI for many years, calling it “the largest fraudulent group ever investigated in the United States.” The damage from the group is estimated by the United States at $586 million. In the Tver district, led by Marat Tambiev, a case was opened under Article 187 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Illegal circulation of means of payment). Investigators filed petitions to the court for the arrest of a whole group of people, which were granted. Among those arrested is one of the founders of The Infraud Organization, Andrei Novak (Unicc, aka Faaxxx). It was also decided to place house arrest on members of The Infraud, Estonian citizen Kirill Samokutyaev, and the founders of the Dutch company BERGMAN MEYER CAPITAL GROUP B.V. and the owners of a number of Russian companies, Mark Bergman and Konstantin Bergman.

A source from the Cheka-OGPU said that this law enforcement operation also has a second side. Right during the searches, the hackers handed over to their participants the keys to crypto wallets worth a very, very large amount (the channel’s interlocutor says that in total all The Infraud participants owned cryptocurrency assets worth 500 bitcoins, which is more than $20 million).

Some wallets containing 125 bitcoins were even included in the protocol, but they were later laundered through a mixer. The first test tranche after the withdrawal was on January 24. And then from February 2 to February 6, the balances were withdrawn.

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The source says that it was precisely for such cryptocurrency generosity that the Bergmans and Samokutyaev were given house arrest. But Novak was sent to a pre-trial detention center and his representatives now really want to find out the fate of the bitcoins seized from the hacker.

Of course, the Bergmans were very angry when, after such losses in the crypt, their good friend lawyer Roman Meyer offered to fork out more money so that everything would be fine with the plea deal, the sentence would be suspended, the accounts of their companies would not be frozen, and he would finally settle all problems with the Tverskoy District Investigative Committee and the Directorate of K. As a result, the Bergmans turned to the FSB.

As for the operatives, according to the Cheka-OGPU, the deputy head of Directorate K, police colonel Boris Yuryevich Nikiforov, the head of the 4th department of Directorate K, police colonel Alexey Alexandrovich Rykov and his deputy, police major Chichin Roman, were involved in the measures against the Infraud Organization. Alekseevich, in whose development this group was.

The source says that after this whole unpleasant story, the head of the 4th department of the Directorate K BSTM of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, police colonel Rykov A.A. is considering the possibility of retirement in the very near future.