According to documents that were at the disposal of the editorial office back in November 2022, the Basmanny court seized 1032 bitcoins located on two crypto wallets belonging to Tambiev. However, the latter also had accomplices. Another 1,032 bitcoins from members of the hacker group The Infraud Organization went to employees of the Directorate K of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. But they prefer to turn a blind eye to this.
Members of The Infraud were detained on January 18, 2022, the events were carried out by employees of the Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Tambiev personally came to the scene, since it was his department that opened the case against the members of the group. If you trace the paths of the bitcoins that have now been seized “from the opposite direction,” you can see the following picture.
During searches of members of The Infraud, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Investigative Committee gained access to ten crypto-wallets, which received 2,064 bitcoins in December 2021 – proceeds from hacking activities. At the time of the events it was approximately $82.5 million. Access to the wallets was provided by the Infraud members themselves, most of whom the investigation led by Tambiev subsequently asked for a preventive measure in the form of house arrest.
Immediately after the election of the house arrest and as soon as information about the detention of Infraud members hit the media (VChK-OGPU was the first to report this), on January 21, money from 10 Infraud wallets was transferred to one bitcoin wallet. 2064 btc arrives there.
On March 7, 2022, it’s time to cut this jackpot. 932 bitcoins and 100 bitcoins are transferred to two Tambiev wallets installed on his phone. By decision of the Basmanny Court, these funds were seized and on November 17, 2022 they were transferred to a wallet designated by the court.
Also, on March 7, 2022, exactly half of the funds (another 1032 bitcoins) went to the “cold wallet.”
Earlier, sources of the Cheka-OGPU said that the “second half” of the jackpot went to the employees of Directorate K who took part in the searches.
According to the Cheka-OGPU, the activities against the Infraud Organization were related to the deputy head of Directorate K, police colonel Boris Yuryevich Nikiforov, the head of the 4th department of Directorate K, police colonel Alexey Aleksandrovich Rykov and his deputy, police major Chichin Roman Alekseevich, who were present at the search.
However, this jackpot seemed not enough for Tambiev.
After the arrest, the leaders of the Bergman group began to extort money from their lawyer Roman Meyer, who stated that they still had to pay 1 million dollars and 26 million rubles for the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Investigative Committee and the prosecutor’s office, so that everything would end well for the Infraud participants. Then the Bergmans turned to the FSB of the Russian Federation and detained Meyer and Tambiev along the chain.
The Basmanny court seized the bitcoins in Tambiev’s wallet. However, the investigation into the theft of bitcoins by employees of the Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation has not begun.
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The Cheka-OGPU became aware of a new high-ranking representative of the law enforcement bloc, whose investigators discovered billions of dollars in assets. The Basmanny Court of Moscow seized funds in cryptocurrency belonging to the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Tverskoy…
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