米国とスペインはサイバー犯罪のロンダリング銀行を解体
リバティリザーブ操作されたUS $60億を通じ
U.S. and Spain dismantle laundering bank of cybercrime
The creator of the e-payment website, captured in Barajas at the request of Costa Rica
Through Liberty Reserve operations were U.S. $ 6,000 million
EE UU y España desmantelan el banco de blanqueo del cibercrimen
El creador de la web de pago electrónico, capturado en Barajas a petición de Costa Rica
A través de Liberty Reserve se hicieron operaciones de 6.000 millones de dólares
S. POZZI / J. DUVA Nueva York / Madrid 29 MAY 2013 - 14:45 CET
U.S. and Spain dismantle laundering bank of cybercrime
The creator of the e-payment website, captured in Barajas at the request of Costa Rica
Through Liberty Reserve operations were U.S. $ 6,000 million
S. POZZI / J. DUVA New York / Madrid 29 MAY 2013 - 14:45 CET
Prosecutors in New York again pull the rug on a planetary scale financial fraud. This time it was to close Liberty Reserve, a system that allows electronic payment with registration only email. Through this organization has conducted more than 55 million daily transactions for an amount that would exceed 6,000 million, allegedly from criminal activities such as credit card fraud, identity theft, investment fraud, hacking, pornography child and drug trafficking, said Tuesday the General Police Directorate Spanish. The founder of the virtual bank, Arthur Budovsky, was arrested last Friday at the Madrid-Barajas airport along with his lieutenant.
The person who led the investigation that led to uncover the criminal plot was U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, the same that is pursuing insider trading on Wall Street. According to the prosecutor, the fifth of the million users of the network are Americans.
"Liberty Reserve had become the financial hub of cybercrime," said Bharara said at a press conference in which he explained that with another move tens of millions of dollars through opaque accounts in Cyprus, Russia, Hong Kong , China, Morocco, Spain and Australia. "This transaction is an important step to take the reins in the Wild West of illegal Internet banking" clinched the prosecutor. The U.S. Treasury joined the proceedings to classify Liberty Reserve as an organization dedicated to money according to the Patriot Act
The police action led by the United States resulted in the immediate closure of the portal of Liberty Reserve, known as "the organized crime PayPal". When trying to access this Tuesday currency trading platform, a sign appeared with the indication "this domain name has been Seized" (This domain name has been seized). This organization was, according to Bharara, the bank used the Mafia and other criminal organizations because it allowed them to change real money for the virtual under the protection of anonymity.
"Liberty Reserve bank is a kind of virtual criminals," says a Spanish police command
"Liberty Reserve is a kind of virtual bank criminals," holds a commanding Brigade Money Laundering Unit Fiscal and Economic Crime (UDEF) Spanish police. This unit was on the trail for months.
Under the documents on which the prosecution rests, the network was one of the main vehicles used by cybercrime worldwide to "distribute, store and wash" the benefits they generated their illegal activities such as fraud credit card or identity theft to child pornography and drug trafficking. Liberty Reserve 1% charged on every transaction that took place on its website.
Liberty Reserve worked well: to open an account and to transfer money alone was necessary to provide a name, date of birth and email address. Once a person is registered in the system, Liberty Reserve gave a name and a number of features which could start transferring money around the world. The account balance could be transferred Liberty by credit card, bank transfer or any other payment system. The transfers could be made from the time were "snapshots" and the company charged a maximum of $ 1.98 per transaction. The site also was offering private messaging system.
Budovsky, the founder of Liberty Reseve, was arrested last Friday in Spain, along with his alleged lieutenant, Amine Azzeddine the charges of money laundering, according to the National Police.
The company, which defined itself as "the oldest processor, safe and popular", was based in Costa Rica, one of the territories that France has added to its list of places considered tax havens.
Five other senior officials of the company were arrested in New York and Costa Rica, while two other defendants, Ahmed Yassine Abdelghani and Allan Esteban Jimenez-Hidalgo are being sought in the Central American country
The arrest and investigation of this organization have been developed in Spain by the Money Laundering Brigade Unit Fiscal and Economic Crime (UDEF). "Liberty Reserve bank is a kind of virtual criminals," a Spanish police commander, who has said that had front companies in Nigeria, Malaysia, Russia and Vietnam.
According to the Costa Rican prosecutor Jose Pablo Gonzalez, plus 10 other people Budovsky investigated. Last week there had been in this country 50 offices and three homes linked to the founder of Liberty. After the investigation, seized documents to be delivered to U.S. authorities, and three vehicles, including a Rolls Royce. Attorney Gonzalez said the financial regulator Costa Rica, Sugef, had refused in 2011 to grant a license to the company because of reservations about the method of financing. Then the company closed its offices in Costa Rica, but continued to operate on the Internet.
Police in Costa Rica, Budovsky and was sentenced in 2007 to five years probation after pleading guilty in a New York court on similar charges to those now accused by the opacities of cyber business.
The two leaders fell in Madrid
S. P. / J. D., New York / Madrid
U.S. officials began an investigation several years Liberty Reserve, considering that functioned as electronic payment system used by cybercriminals to launder facilitated them profits. United States issued a letter rogatory to Spain to investigate the activities of the two heads of the company, as these banks kept accounts of our country, according to the Directorate General of Police of Spain.
Upon receiving the request of U.S. authorities, agents of the National Police began research efforts have resulted in the location and arrest of Arthur Budovsky, 39, founder and head of that company. Budovsky, of Ukrainian origin and nationalized in Costa Rica, and his number two, Azzedine el Amine, from Morocco and Costa Rican nationality.
The two alleged heads of the organization were captured in the Madrid-Barajas airport, where they arrived on a flight from Morocco in transit to Costa Rica. They were arrested and jailed in Madrid for the purpose of extradition.
Besides the two arrested in the capital of Spain, police have arrested others in Costa Rica and New York. Among them is Vladimir Kats, 41, the alleged founder of the virtual bank, which was located in Brooklyn.
In the raid police have participated from 17 countries, so that the prosecutor Bharara has not hesitated to describe it as "the largest international operation against money laundering."
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