Police detain 2 for cybercrime in western Georgia
The crime is punishable from three to nine years of imprisonment. Photo: Screenshot from the video of MIA.
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The Division for the Fight Against Cybercrime has detained two individuals for cybercrime in Georgia’s western Ozurgeti municipality, reports the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The MIA reports that the detainees, identified only as T.Ts. and O.Ch,. have been accused of illegally accessing other computer systems, and altering the data of these systems without authorisation and swindling others.
On April 28 and June 6, 2020, T.Ts., by means of homemade pay kiosks in Senaki and Zestaponi and by using a so-called ‘Dongle License’, he transferred money to the amount of 7,000 GEL (about $2,151) to his unverified account, on the account of a certain individual and to another account of an online casino. Part of the mentioned sum, 2,000 GEL was transferred to the online casino’s account of O.Ch. Later he managed to withdraw the cash. T.Ts later also managed to withdraw the remaining 5,000 GEL from a pay kiosk located in Kobuleti”, reads an official statement of the MIA.
The law enforcers seized mobile phones, plastic cards and SIM cards as evidence.
The crime is punishable from three to nine years of imprisonment.
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