Media: Court Seizes 1032 BTC From Wallets of Investigator in The Infraud Organization Case

On November 17, the Moscow Basmanny Court ordered the seizure of bitcoins belonging to the head of the Investigative Department of the Russian Investigative Committee for the Tverskoy district of Moscow, Marat Tambiev. This is reported by the Telegram channel «ВЧК-ОГПУ».

According to the court order, which has been in the possession of the channel’s authors, the matter concerns two wallets with a total balance of 1032.1 BTC ($17.2 million at the time of the authorities’ inspection).

According to the channel “+«ВЧК-ОГПУ», the department led by Tambiev was conducting a criminal case against members of the large hacker group The Infraud Organization. называют its leaders as Mark Bergman, Konstantin Bergman and Andrey Novak.

Tambiev is accused of taking a bribe from cybercriminal lawyer Roman Meyer.

“At the time of the arrest, which Tambiev personally attended, members of The Infraud Organization provided access to ten cryptocurrency wallets that had received proceeds from hacking activity in December 2021 amounting to 2064 BTC. All of these funds were withdrawn from the wallets,” the channel reported.

According to him, after the hackers’ arrest, Meyer began extorting from them $1 million and 26 million rubles “for the staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Investigative Committee, and the Prosecutor’s Office” in order to settle the case.

The cybercriminals turned to the FSB. Meyer and Tambiev were detained while transferring the money. On November 23, Tambiev will have a hearing to extend his detention.

According to the Telegram channel’s sources, the other half of the funds from the hackers’ wallets went to a certain “cold wallet”, access to which may be held by officers of Directorate “K” who participated in the searches.

Earlier, four suspects of The Infraud Organization were detained by Russian law enforcement in January 2022 . The group specialized in trading stolen personal data, compromised credit cards, malware and other illicit items.

Subsequently, all those detained admitted guilt and began cooperating with the investigation. In particular, Novak provided investigators with passwords, documents and access to cryptocurrency assets.

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