Rusakovich Oleg

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2022: Arrest on charges of hacking Russian customs IT systems

As it became known on June 15, 2022, a court in Moscow placed hacker Oleg Rusakovich under house arrest, who, according to the investigation, together with "unidentified persons" hacked into the unified information system of the Federal Customs Service (FCS).

According to the Telegram channel Mash, citing investigative data, the hacker stole and exchanged data constituting a tax secret from 2018 to 2021 so that "the necessary goods passed through customs." It was established that the attacker hacked the system using someone else's account. It is also noted that several apartments and several cars have been registered for a hacker in Moscow.

A court in Moscow arrested a hacker accused of hacking into the IT systems of Russian customs

In November 2018, the central server of the Central Information and Technical Customs Administration FCS Russia (responsible for the technical work of the electronic declaration system) was subjected to a hacker attack, as informed sources Fontanka told the publication "." According to them, as a result of the cyber attack, there was a total cessation of electronic registration of goods throughout Russia. The problem occurred on servers the Electronic Information View automated tool.

At that time, the information exchange between the participants of the foreign economic activity and the electronic archives of declarants in the customs authorities of all customs departments of the country, without exception, was completely suspended.

In March 2022, the FCS reported that due to the increasing incidence of cyber attacks on information resources, the service temporarily limited access to the official website of the department and the personal account of a participant in foreign economic activity from IP addresses located outside the customs border of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). Massive cyber attacks on Russian state bodies and companies began after the start of a special operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine.^[1]

2025: Sentence - 5 years suspended

As the TAdviser correspondent, who attended the court session in the Cheremushkinsky District Court, reports, on January 29, the verdict was announced to Oleg Rusakovich. He was found guilty under Part 3 of Article 183 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (collection, disclosure or use of information constituting a commercial, tax or bank secret), Part 4 and 5 of Article 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (mediation in giving a bribe) and paragraph "b" of Part 4 of Article 174.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (legalization of criminal proceeds).

The judge, by partial addition of punishments under all articles, sentenced Oleg Rusakovich to a fine of 150 million rubles, confiscation of property and 5 years of suspended imprisonment. He is also forbidden for 2 years to engage in services for the provision of statistical and analytical information on foreign economic activity.

As follows from the court's^[2]February 2022, the investigator of the South-Western Investigation Department for Transport of the Western Interregional Investigation Department for Transport of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case against Oleg Rusakovich on the grounds of a crime under Part 3 of Article 183 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. And in September 2022 he was arrested.

However, back in February 2022, the case of Oleg Rusakovich was combined with another - the former head of FCS Russia [1] the information and technical department of the Moscow Railway Customs Center Kireenko E.V. The^[3] in this general case was passed in October 2023 under criminal articles part 4 of article 274.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (unlawful impact on the CUES Russian Federation) and paragraph "v" of part 5 of article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (giving a bribe to an official). It says the following:

{{quote 'E.V. Kireenko made creation and use of computer programs deliberately intended for unlawful influence on the critical information infrastructure of the Russian Federation, including copying the information contained in it and neutralizing the means of protecting this information, using his official position. He, E.V. Kireenko, made an official receiving a bribe through an intermediary in the form of money for illegal actions on a large scale.}}

Then - in October 2023 - the criminal case against Oleg Rusakovich was separated into a separate proceeding and reclassified into mediation when giving a bribe (Article 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and disclosure of commercial, tax or banking secrets (Article 183 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

In general, the following picture is formed from the materials of the above cases: Oleg Rusakovich no later than June 28, 2017 appealed to E.V. Kireenko with a request for illegal monetary remuneration to perform actions expressed in providing illegal remote access to information of taxpayers - participants in foreign economic activity, on declaring the goods they move across the border of the Russian Federation constituting a tax secret, with the aim of subsequently providing remote access to these information to other persons.

The defendant disagreed with the verdict, and, as his lawyer TAdviser stated, expects to file an appeal within the prescribed period (15 days).

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