{"id":10033,"date":"2024-01-23T11:23:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T09:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/kazakh-court-convicts-p2p-traders-as-accomplices-in-phone-scam\/"},"modified":"2024-01-23T11:23:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T09:23:28","slug":"kazakh-court-convicts-p2p-traders-as-accomplices-in-phone-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/kazakh-court-convicts-p2p-traders-as-accomplices-in-phone-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazakh Court Convicts P2P Traders as Accomplices in Phone Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"

On December 19, 2023, the Almaty District Court sentenced two organizers of P2P transactions to prison terms, deeming them participants in a fraudulent scheme, according to the legal agency Cartesius<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The investigation into the defendants began a year and a half ago. According to the case materials, two individuals conducted P2P transactions for cash through a counterparty. It was later discovered that some of the funds came from elderly women who had fallen victim to phone scammers.<\/p>\n

Lawyers stated that the exchange organizers were unknowingly involved in a \u201ctriangle\u201d scheme<\/span>. Nevertheless, law enforcement charged them with aiding fraud and conspiring with the perpetrators.<\/p>\n

The defense provided comprehensive information on each cryptocurrency sale transaction: correspondence with counterparties, transaction hashes on the Tron network, the movement of exchange funds to centralized exchanges, and the movement of bitcoins purchased by phone scammers using defrauded victims’ funds.<\/p>\n

However, the investigation and court ignored this information, claim Cartesius lawyers.<\/p>\n

According to the court’s conclusion, correspondence with counterparties is \u201cevidence that the accused were personally acquainted with unidentified individuals and had a joint criminal intent.\u201d Witness testimony regarding the legality of the exchange operations was deemed to \u201ccontradict the defendants’ defense position.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As a result, the court sentenced the individuals to six years and eight months in prison. The defendants did not plead guilty, and the defense has filed an appeal.<\/p>\n

Earlier in February 2023, a court in Russia found a participant in a P2P transaction guilty of fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On December 19, 2023, the Almaty District Court sentenced two organizers of P2P transactions to prison terms, deeming them participants in a fraudulent scheme, according to the legal agency Cartesius. The investigation into the defendants began a year and a half ago. According to the case materials, two individuals conducted P2P transactions for cash through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1162,153,455],"class_list":["post-10033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-court-cases","tag-kazakhstan","tag-p2p"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"39","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}