Investigators of the National Police have completed a pre-trial investigation into the organizer of the Avalanche cyber network
Recall that the network operated for seven years. With the help of Avalanche, attackers in different countries around the world have placed and distributed various types of malware and illegally seized the funds of the victims. Currently, the organizer can face up to 12 years in prison.
Investigators of the Main Investigative Department of the National Police of Ukraine, under the prompt support of employees of the Cyber Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine and under the procedural guidance of the Office of the Prosecutor General, completed a pre-trial investigation in criminal proceedings on suspicion of involvement of a 37-year-old resident of Poltava in the activities of an interstate crime the task force that created the Avalanche cyber network.
During the pre-trial investigation, it was established that the group included citizens of Ukraine, Georgia and Romania. Avalanche covered a complex global network of servers and was designed to provide perpetrators of crimes on the global Internet a secure domain infrastructure through which to host and distribute various types of malware, redirect traffic coming from infected computers, and carry out fraud. from money laundering.
The police found that using the Avalanche network by infecting the computers of the victims with malware that provided access to the management of companies' accounts, the attackers seized the funds of business entities that are located in the United States of America. Thus, acting in a criminal conspiracy, the attackers appropriated 721 thousand US dollars. The money obtained criminally, in particular $334.5 thousand US dollars, was legalized on the territory of Ukraine through financial transactions through Internet settlement systems opened by “fake” persons.
During the investigation of criminal proceedings and international legal cooperation involving representatives of law enforcement agencies of Ukraine, the USA, Germany, Romania, Georgia and other countries, the activities of the Avalanche network were liquidated in 2016. At the same time, the organizer was detained. In December 2016, the October district court of the city. In Poltava, the petition of the representative of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine for his arrest was considered. The court refused to choose such a precaution, after which the suspect disappeared. He was later placed on an international wanted list.
In February 2018, the hacker, who was wanted by law enforcement officers of 30 countries of the world, was detained by the cyber police in Kyiv.
Currently, the pre-trial investigation is completed. Materials are open to the other side.
A resident of Poltava is suspected of committing offenses provided for in Part 2 of Art. 361 (unauthorized interference in the work of electronic computers (computers), automated systems, computer networks), part 4 of Article 190 (possession of other people's property by deception committed on previous charges a group of persons, through illegal operations using electronic computers (computers), part 3 of Article 209 (legalization (laundering) of income received by criminal means) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. He could face up to 12 years in prison.
Communications Department of the National Police of Ukraine
