The officers of Division for the combat against cybercrime of Central Criminal Police Department as a result of operative-searching and investigative activities detained two persons: Dimitri Ts. (DoB 1975) and Zviad Ts. (DoB 1966) for misappropriation of sums owned by foreigners by means of credit cards. Law enforcers also exposed six Ukrainian citizens: Iuri Kh. Sergi T. Stanislav D. Konstantin K. Ruslan M. and Viktor R. in connection with the above mentioned crime.
Investigation established that citizen of Ukraine Iuri Kh. contacted Dimitri Ts. who provided the later with 47 forged credit cards owned by him and his five Ukrainian accomplices and explained that credit cards contained information regarding bank accounts of British citizens. Iuri Kh. proposed to Dimitri Ts. to received cash by means of the mentioned credit cards through Georgian banks in exchange for certain amount of cash. Later Dimitri Ts. had to transact the received cash to Iuri Kh and his accomplices in Ukraine. Dimitri Ts. informed his brother Zviat Ts. regarding the plan, who got involved in the crime. Investigation also established that sums were appropriated from credit cards issued by 1137 British Banks and transacted to the customers of online-casino. Afterwards misappropriated sums were divided between 11 customers of online-casino. From the mentioned accounts money was transacted on various bank and international accounts.
Members of the criminal group managed to appropriate 267 000 USD from the accounts of British citizens. Dimitri Ts. and his brother Zviad Ts. managed to receive sun from various banks several times. The mentioned persons appropriated 110 000 GEL from the accounts of British citizens by means of the forged credit cards. During the searching activities held in Dimitri Ts’s apartment law enforcers seized 60 credit cards, registered on the names of Ukrainian citizens and contains illegally obtained account data of the British citizens.
Detainees have already pleaded guilty.
Investigation is in progress on the fact of production, using and selling of forged credit cards, article 210, II part, sub-paragraph A of the Criminal Code.
