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2021: Search of digital fraud case

In mid-April 2021, it became known about the searches that took place in Russian companies issuing electronic signatures. In particular, the operatives became interested in Moscow LLC MTSSP-Group and Yekaterinburg LLC Solar, which, according to Kommersant, have recently accounted for the most new signatures.

According to the publication, law enforcement agencies have recently exposed a number of fictitious firms that conducted economic activities only on paper, but at the same time returned large amounts of VAT (the term "paper VAT" arose). Fraudsters could register such a company with a decent citizen using an electronic signature, receiving it through a certification center, which does not carefully check the identity of the applicant.

The companies issuing electronic signatures "MTSSP-group" and LLC "Solar" were searched

At the same time, they act within the framework of the law, in which there are certain loopholes - for example, to receive an EP in such centers, a copy of a passport is enough that the client may not belong.

Law enforcers say that increasingly to obtain a digital signature, fraudsters use copies of the passports of respectable citizens who buy out in different structures. After that, in the name of the victim, you can get a loan or sell her real estate.

According to the certificate center of the passport, it is impossible to establish for certain who exactly applied for the signature - the real owner of the passport or the fraudster who obtained a copy of the document, the source explained. Kommersant

According to the newspaper, by mid-April 2021 there are about 500 certification centers in Russia. The services of the companies "MTSSP-groups" and "Solar," in which investigative and operational events took place, were used by several thousand clients. The Moscow police opened a criminal case on the fact of the illegal formation of a legal entity (part 2 of article 173.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).^[1]

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