The smartest theft crimes in history.
In this episode we will talk about one of the smartest theft crimes in history:
In 2013 , a criminal was extradited to the US authorities after he was arrested in Germany, the criminal faced her with a series of illegal ATM withdrawals. These operations were recorded in different periods beginning in the year two thousand and eight, the total amounts withdrawn amounted to about fifty-five million dollars.
Who is the Turkish man who stole $55 million?
The defendant in the case, Hoglu, a 33-year-old Turkish man, was arrested under an international arrest warrant.
This happened during his visit to the German city of Frankfurt in December of the year two thousand and thirteen, and it continued for five years during that period.
He was ranked second on the FBI’s most wanted list.
A lawyer submitted a request to the German authorities not to extradite him to the American authorities, but his request was denied, Wendeck wished to be tried:
Because German law will impose a prison sentence of fifteen years at most.
As for the punishment he will face in America, he will be up to two hundred and forty-seven years.
And that means life imprisonment, especially if he is convicted of all the charges against him, meaning the American informed him of the list of charges against him by the US Attorney for the State of New York.
The charges against Fendik, known as the Turkish hacker.
The list included eighteen charges, including computer network hacking, theft, fraud, and evasion of justice.
All this happened after Sindyk performed a trick that made him occupy the computer systems connected to the withdrawal machines, in order to make illegal withdrawals.
More than fifteen thousand withdrawals were made in more than eighteen different countries in 2011, bringing in fourteen million dollars.
In December of the year two thousand and twelve, seven hundred thousand withdrawals were made, across twenty countries, with a total of five million dollars, and in February of the year two thousand and thirteen, forty million dollars were stolen in the same way.
All this happened at a time when the White House was preoccupied with immunizing the laws that deter crimes, these amendments allow the judiciary to punish those who use US bank card data illegally, even if this happened outside US territory, but how.
Discovery of the federal government the crime of Turkish Fendik.
It began in the year two thousand and thirteen: the US government revealed a list of charges against eight unknown gang, among those charges of participating in the theft of two million eight hundred thousand dollars in February of the year two thousand and eleven.
Investigations revealed that the person who helped organize and plan the theft, Huglu, was accused of using hacking to control the ATM system. This process removes the maximum limit for the withdrawal process through the card, which allows the person who obtains the bank card data to withdraw an unlimited amount from the bank account of the card holder, until the money runs out of it.”
In this case, the New York State Attorney said:
The operation was carried out by relying on laptops connected to the Internet, and it is one of the most organized hacking operations. The gang members, led by Sandy Kogloo, succeeded in infiltrating the systems linked to the ATMs.
Then the criminals spread all over the city to steal millions of dollars from hundreds of devices in just hours, which was later repeated in different countries.
One of the repercussions of this also is that on the 23rd of June, the US Department of Justice announced the sentence of fifty-seven months in prison for the Swede Alexios, who is accused of developing the tool, which is one of the latest tools used in computer hacking.
The US authorities say: This tool can be used to launch various attacks on bank accounts and ATMs, and it is one of the tools he relied on in his crime.
The fate of the Swedish programmer.
Where the Swedish programmer developed that tool for one purpose only, which is to control digital systems, and to collect information related to software bank accounts, it fell into the wrong hands and caused many crimes, and the Swedish programmer was arrested in Moldova, then handed over to the US authorities, in addition to a prison sentence .
He was fined two hundred thousand dollars, all his digital devices were confiscated, and the Russian Vladimir was also extradited to the United States of America: because of his participation in the crime.
After he was arrested in the Dutch city of Amsterdam, in addition to Rome, who was arrested in the Maldives, on charges of stealing data on more than two million credit cards.
That was the end of one of the biggest digital crimes in American history .
