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	"title": "Russian National Pleads Guilty for Role in Transnational Cybercrime Organization Responsible for more than $568 Million in Losses",
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	"plain_text": "Russian National Pleads Guilty for Role in Transnational\r\nCybercrime Organization Responsible for more than $568 Million\r\nin Losses\r\nPublished: 2020-06-26 · Archived: 2026-04-07 02:15:09 UTC\r\nOne of the leaders of the Infraud Organization pleaded guilty today to RICO conspiracy.  Infraud was an Internet-based cybercriminal enterprise engaged in the large-scale acquisition, sale, and dissemination of stolen identities,\r\ncompromised debit and credit cards, personally identifiable information, financial and banking information,\r\ncomputer malware, and other contraband. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice\r\nDepartment’s Criminal Division made the announcement.\r\nSergey Medvedev, aka “Stells,” “segmed,” “serjbear,” 33, of the Russian Federation, pleaded guilty before U.S.\r\nDistrict Court Judge James C. Mahan in the District of Nevada.  According to the indictment, the Infraud\r\nOrganization was created in October 2010 by Svyatoslav Bondarenko aka “Obnon,” “Rector,” and “Helkern,” 34,\r\nof Ukraine, to promote and grow interest in the Infraud Organization as the premier destination for “carding”—\r\npurchasing retail items with counterfeit or stolen credit card information—on the Internet.  Under the slogan, “In\r\nFraud We Trust,” the organization directed traffic and potential purchasers to the automated vending sites of its\r\nmembers, which served as online conduits to traffic in stolen means of identification, stolen financial and banking\r\ninformation, malware, and other illicit goods.  It also provided an escrow service to facilitate illicit digital\r\ncurrency transactions among its members and employed screening protocols that purported to ensure only high\r\nquality vendors of stolen cards, personally identifiable information, and other contraband were permitted to\r\nadvertise to members.  In March 2017, there were 10,901 registered members of the Infraud Organization. \r\nDuring the course of its seven-year history, the Infraud Organization inflicted approximately $2.2 billion in\r\nintended losses, and more than $568 million in actual losses, on a wide swath of financial institutions, merchants,\r\nand private individuals, and would have continued to do so for the foreseeable future if left unchecked. \r\nThe investigation was conducted by the Las Vegas Office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s\r\nHomeland Security Investigations and the Henderson, Nevada Police Department.  The Criminal Division’s Office\r\nof International Affairs provided significant assistance in securing the defendant’s extradition from Thailand. \r\nDeputy Chief Kelly Pearson and Trial Attorneys Chad W. McHenry and Alexander Gottfried of the Criminal\r\nDivision’s Organized Crime and Gang Section are prosecuting the case.\r\nThe year 2020 marks the 150th anniversary of the Department of Justice.  Learn more about the history of our\r\nagency at www.Justice.gov/Celebrating150Years.\r\nSource: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/russian-national-pleads-guilty-role-transnational-cybercrime-organization-responsible-more\r\nhttps://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/russian-national-pleads-guilty-role-transnational-cybercrime-organization-responsible-more\r\nPage 1 of 1",
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