Court sentenced 35-year-old resident of city of Ulyanovsk

Regional employees of the FSB, together with the police, prevented the activities of the 35-year-old resident of Ulyanovsk A. Golyaev, who was part of the Lurk hackers group. According to the authorities, the group members distributed Trojan, which caused harm to banking systems. With the help of this harmful program, hackers stole more than 2.5 billion rubles and successfully cashed more than 1.2 billion rubles.

A. Golyaev He was a member of the criminal group and was responsible for the performance of servers and software, which were used for illegal money transfers. At the place of residence of the defendant, computer devices, information carriers, bank cards and payment documents were confiscated.

– as a result of investigative actions at the place of residence of the defendant, funds of computer technology, information carriers, bank cards and payment documents confirming the involvement of the latter in the commission illegal actions, ”said Anna Pshenikov, press secretary of the UFSB in the Ulyanovsk region.

POFRASE in Russian – the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia instituted a criminal case of part 4 of article against Gulyaev and other hackers. 159.6 of the Criminal Code of Russia (fraud in the field of computer information committed by an organized group on an especially large scale) and part 1, part 2 of article 210 of the Criminal Code of Russia (organization of a criminal community or participation in it).

a resident of Ulyanovsk was found the guilty decision of the Court of Appeal for Criminal Cases of the Sverdlovsk Court and received a punishment in the form of 8 years 6 months in a colony of general regime.

/Media reports cited above.