The Kirovsky District Court of Yekaterinburg found guilty of committing a crime…

The Kirovsky District Court of Yekaterinburg found them guilty of committing crimes under articles under Parts 1 and 2 of Art. 210 (“Organization of a criminal community and participation in it”), Part 4 of Art. 159.6 (“Fraud in the field of computer information”), Part 3 of Art. 272 (“Illegal access to computer information”), Part 2 of Art. 273 (“Creation, use and distribution of malicious computer programs”) of the Criminal Code of Russia and 22 members of the organized criminal group of the “Lurk” community were sentenced to real terms of imprisonment (leader K. Kozlovsky – 14 years, I. Popov – 13 years, G. Kobylsky – 12 years old, other members – from 9 to 5 years old).

The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, in cooperation with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, suppressed the activities of the organized criminal community (hereinafter – OPC) “Lurk”, whose members were involved in the creation of a malicious computer program of the same name and the theft of funds using it from the accounts of clients of Russian financial institutions on an especially large scale. .

During the period from 2012 to 2016. The defendants gained unlawful access to banking information systems and, by replacing clients’ payment details, transferred funds to accounts under their control. The damage from the activities of the OPS amounted to more than 1 billion 200 million rubles.

Based on operational materials of the FSB of Russia by investigative units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the period 2016-2017. 5 criminal cases were initiated.

Investigative actions were carried out at 88 addresses in 13 constituent entities of the Russian Federation (Sverdlovsk, Kostroma, Leningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov, Saratov, Tver, Tula, Ulyanovsk regions, Altai and Krasnodar territories, the Republic of Crimea and Tatarstan).

As a result of operational and procedural actions, the organized criminal community “Lurk” ceased to exist, the information infrastructure used for criminal purposes was neutralized