One of the citizens from Russia is found under the fraud act related to crypto and regarded to be a cybercriminal with a high-profile. This case is recorded as one of the most criminal sets which are to be sentenced under lawful obligations. Sergey Medvedev, a national citizen of Russia who is involved in an “escrow crypto service,” has raised his plead in response to the fraud caught. He is pleaded as a guilty citizen who is involved in the fraud of the crypto case. Medvedev has pleaded a guilty response to the charges applicable to racketeering in the US.
Infraud and Liberty Reserve Organization:
It was admitted by the man who stands at the age of 33-years-old that he was involved in the establishment of the organization. He admitted on June 26 in front of the US District Court for Nevada that the international criminal enterprise was established by him, which involved credit cards and equipment sale facilitation. The organization was kept in operation for eight years. In the company, all trafficking included for information stolen from the credit cards and other illegal things.
In 2010, it was recorded that the Infraud Organization began with its operations. In the operation years, an illegal attempt was made, and about $560m transactions took place. Also, Medvedev revealed that he was involved in running the Liberty Reserve service, which facilitates all the transactions involving Bitcoin.
During 2018, the Justice Department came up with indicting the cybercriminal and all his partners for the racketeering count. Medvedev got arrested himself later in Thailand in the same year. During that time, it was reported by the Bangkok Post that 100,000 BTC was found in possession, as found by the agencies made for ensuring law enforcement.
In the recent plea made by him, nothing was mentioned regarding the extent to which all the transactions involving Bitcoin took place. Though, it was reported that he got hands over $1.04m digital currency by way of exchange. As per the reports, Russian cybercriminal’s next hearing is to be held on December 9.
Aleksei Burkov: Cybercriminal running Dark Web platform
Medvedev is the second cybercriminal in Russia who got sentenced in so much time. On the day when Medvedev made the plea, another announcement was made by the Department of Justice regarding the nine years punishment sentence made for Aleksei Burkov. As per the document released as a sentence notice, Burkov got involved in running a platform Cardplanet, Dark Web, wherein ads are placed, and information stolen from the confidential credentials is sold out over it. Also, the department of justice alleged that several card information was related to the ones who belong to America. With the sale of stolen data over the platform, it has helped the cybercriminal to get hands over $20m using making fraudulent purchases using the credit card information.
Another report reveals that the cybercriminal was involved in running an allegedly framed club to share partnerships with other criminals. In the club, the participants hold the opportunity to make the advertisement regarding the goods stolen illegally or even the activities related to illegal things. In the club, each member is liable to pay an amount of $5,000 to use the platform and operate it with permission. And the members were required to come up with three reference members.
In 2015, authorities even took strict action against him by seizing him when he was residing in the areas of Israel. Even an effort was made by Russia’s government to get him free from the Israelis hostage swap. After a deal made between both parties, an agreement got framed to send the latter to the US.