Grinevich Mikhail

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2021:16 years in prison for organizing a criminal group to hack into banking systems

At the end of March 2021, the Industrial District Court of the city of Stavropol sentenced Mikhail Grinevich to 16 years in a maximum security colony for organizing a criminal group that hacked into the bank's computer systems and stole funds from ATMs. Grinevich's accomplices received from 6.5 to 9 years in prison, according to the FSB.

The activities of the criminal community, whose members carried out a series of money thefts from ATMs of one of the credit organizations, were suppressed and investigated, the FSB press release said.

Hackers who stole dozens of ATMs were convicted in Russia, 567 cards from 450 million rubles were seized from them

In 2018, members of the group made unauthorized access to the computer network of the Stavropol bank, which allowed them to freely seize cash from 22 ATMs. It has a comparable network, Stavropolpromstroybank but law enforcement agencies did not publicly disclose the name of the credit institution.

During the joint operation of the FSB and, in MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS Russia which more than 100 employees of law enforcement agencies took part, Moscow St. Petersburg searches and detentions were carried out in the territory of the Stavropol, Krasnodar and Perm Territories, and the Novosibirsk Region. The suspects seized 12.5 million rubles in cash and 567 bank cards, on the accounts of which there were more than 450 million rubles, as well as a large number of communications and computer equipment with traces of illegal activities.

The main investigative department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Stavropol Territory initiated criminal cases on the grounds of crimes provided for in parts 1, 2 of article 210, paragraph "b" of part 4 of article 158 and part 2 of article 272 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

The court found that as a result of the detention of members of an organized criminal community, it was possible to prevent the theft of more than 1.1 billion rubles from the correspondent account of a Stavropol credit institution in the Bank of Russia.^[1]

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