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Hackers led by Azerbaijani steal over $5,000,000 from Turkish banking accounts

10 April 2008 [17:21] - TODAY.AZ
A criminal hacker network, lead by Azerbaijani lawyer Nijat Kerimov, was detained in Turkey for withdrawing over $5,000,000 from 2,000 banking accounts via Internet.
According to APA, after a number of organizations and private enterprises appealed to policy due to the disappearance of definite amounts from their accounts, the law enforcement bodies undertook the case. An operation under conditional name "Carnaval" which resulted in detainment of Kerimov and 67 people was carried out after 6 months study of the issue. 29 detained were freed following the testimonies.

The "brain center" of the network was an Azerbaijani hacker, called Nedjo, Nijat Kerimov, Guneyd Tatkisoy, called Junior, Shovga Ishinay called Shiki and Fateh Shagband. These people sent virus infected files and links to different internet sites and got information about the personality and number of accounts of these or those persons.

Then, falsified documents, certificates and credit cards, used for withdrawal of money from cash dispensers, were worked out in line with the information. Kerimov and Ishinay spent a part of the stolen money on a traditional carnaval in Rio-de-Janeiro.

Nijat is said to be married a Brazilian and have a child.

/APA/


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