Prosecutors in New York announces new hacker sentenced
Manhattan prosecutors announced the latest convictions of grand criminal case on trafficking numbers of tens of thousands of stolen credit card numbers and related personal data. On this and neighboring Affairs held a minimum of 17 people from different countries, including Russia and Ukraine, according to broadcaster BBC. Prosecutors collectively refers to them as members of "cybercrime group Western Express" on behalf of the New York-based Western Express International, which, according to Prosecutors have been used by fraudsters to move and launder illicit profits. According to the prosecutor's office in Manhattan, which is eight years investigating the case along with the U.S. Secret Service, a total group has sold more than 95,000 numbers of stolen credit cards.
Damage suffered by the victims exceeded $ 5 million. 11 defendants in the case pleaded guilty and were sentenced. June 13 this year, the Supreme Court of the State of New York ended which ran two and a half month process in which a jury found 27-year-old Ukrainian Yegor Sheveleva Americans and 40-year-old Douglas lattes and his 41-year-old mistress Anna Siano guilty to conspiracy, possession stolen goods and fraud. Siano July 23, was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 19 years and 8 months to 47 years. Two days later, from Kiev Shevelev was 13 years and 4 months to 40 years, and at the end of last week, Latta received from 22 to 44 years. This is the so-called indeterminate punishment practiced in the courts of the U.S. states. Since it is not a federal prison, where there is no parole, the size of the period, which is really one of the prisoners had served will be determined by a parole board. Prosecutors called Sheveleva (aka Eskalibur, or Esk) "one of the most prominent in the world traders of stolen credit card information is. " Sitting in his Kiev apartment, he went to different forums for cyber criminals and declared that he has to sell millions of credit card numbers stolen.
As was proved at the trial, which were 50 prosecution witnesses, Shevelev sold more than 75,000 of the 95,000 rooms incriminates the entire group Western Express. He is charged with property damage in the amount of 4,000,000 dolllarov. Payments for sold information translated it in the form of digital currency Egold and Webmoney. U.S. does not have an extradition treaty with the Ukraine, where he lived move but in May 2008 he went on holiday to Greece where he was arrested on U.S. warrant and extradited to the U.S.. He also instituted against the federal case in Florida, which is now unlikely to be running. As stated in court, Shevelev laundered illicit profits in the amount of 600 thousand dollars through a company Western Express, which was led by 47-year-old Ukrainian Vadim Vasilenko, who lived in Fort Lee, New Jersey. This February Vasilenko, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a term of 3 years and 4 months to 10 years. He had long been in pre-trial detention and therefore familiar saying that this summer will be deported to their homeland.
Pled guilty and his wife, 48-year-old Elena Barishev that started with him Western Express in 1995. She received from 1 to 3 years. According to her husband, Barishev long deported to Ukraine. Latta (aka Realbusy) and Siano, who lived in Brooklyn, in 2004-2007 bought from Sheveleva and other scams stolen numbers more than 800 credit cards. They also got provision for fake credit cards and complete sets of related personal information, such as the name of the victim, date of birth, his number in the system of social insurance, username and password. Using them that dwell produced fake IDs and credit cards, which they bought in the name of the victim expensive goods, including laptops, technology firms Apple, designer handbags and gaming consoles and they sold them on the eBay online auctions, earning him more than 100 thousand dollars. Latta and Siano buying other people's personal information on the Internet, using digital currency Egold and Webmoney, resulting in Vasilenko and his company. Clients gang and identity thieves arrested in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, New Jersey, Louisiana, California and Oregon. They all pleaded not guilty.
Two of the defendants, 37-year-old Russian Vyacheslav Vasilyev (aka The Viver) and 35-year-old citizen of Moldova Vladimir Kramarenko (Envisor), were detained in the Czech Republic and subsequently extradited to the U.S.. They were accused of purchasing online goods stolen credit cards and eventually pleaded guilty. Both received from 3 years and 4 months to 10 years in prison. Two of the defendants, 32-year-old citizen of Moldova Oleg Kovelin (DoZ) and 30-year-old Belarusian Dmitry Burak (Graph, Wolf and Leon Kurochkin) are on the run. Kovelin allegedly specialized in that deception pry personal information from the victims and their accounts hacked.
According to the authorities, Burak was a board administrator DumpsMarket, where cyber criminals buying and selling credit card numbers and other data. In an e-mail Burak allegedly found more than 55,000 stolen credit card numbers. Instituted against him a similar case in California. the case also were Americans Kostas Kapsis, Lyndon Roach, Jermaine Vann, Keith Cummings and John Washington, pleaded guilty to possession of stolen goods, fraud and conspiracy. Pleaded guilty and Russians 36-year-old Edward Holstinin, who lived in Oregon and California, and the 35-year-old Alex Yarne, who lived in Los Angeles. First received on-year and 4 months to 5 years, and the second - from a half to four years.
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