{"id":38818,"date":"2021-03-12T13:52:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T11:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=38818"},"modified":"2025-08-30T06:31:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T03:31:25","slug":"moldova-arrests-members-of-organised-crime-group-over-bitcoin-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/moldova-arrests-members-of-organised-crime-group-over-bitcoin-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Moldova arrests members of organised crime group over Bitcoin fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Moldovan police have identified the identities of two members of a criminal group who siphoned funds from citizens&#8217; bank cards and laundered them through cryptocurrency. Local media <a href=\"https:\/\/stiri.md\/article\/social\/escrocherii-cu-carduri-bancare-tranzactii-de-milioane-si-2-retinuti\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a>.<!\u2014more--><\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, during 2020 and up to the present the suspects transferred 2 million lei to personal accounts (over $113,000 at the time of writing). They subsequently converted them into Bitcoin and Litecoin.<\/p>\n<p>During one of the searches, police seized 560,000 lei (over $31,600) in cash and two cars.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects have been remanded in custody for 30 days; they face up to eight years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in November 2020, a United States court sentenced former Microsoft programmer Vladimir Kvashuk <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/former-microsoft-software-engineer-sentenced-to-prison-for-bitcoin-fraud\">to a prison term for theft<\/a>, money laundering and tax fraud with bitcoins. Through the company&#8217;s online retail platform, the offender stole and sold digital gift cards. The losses from his scheme exceeded $10 million.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">VK<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Moldovan police identified the identities of two members of a criminal group who siphoned funds from citizens&#8217; bank cards and laundered them through cryptocurrency. Local media report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,44,553],"class_list":["post-38818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-cybercrime","tag-moldova"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"14","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38818","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=38818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38820,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38818\/revisions\/38820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}