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The head of the counterintelligence department of the Perm FSB Directorate was arrested for a bribe of 100 million rubles. for the termination of a criminal case against a group of carders
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© properm.ru09/14/2023, media: ex-special service employee received a bribe from Perm hackers
In Moscow, on September 5, the 235th Garrison Military Court extended until November 7 the arrest of FSB officer for the Perm Territory Grigory Tsaregorodtsev, accused of opposing the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs and a bribe of 100 million rubles; journalists from the Kommersant publication drew attention to the court ruling.
According to investigators, a former FSB employee who patronized members of the hacker group received 100 million rubles from two defendants in the case. He promised that he would resolve issues with the transfer of their criminal case from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the FSB, and organize the transfer of the accused to the Perm pre-trial detention center, from where they would be released due to the termination of criminal prosecution.
The case materials indicate that he gave instructions to his proxies to destroy evidence of his involvement in criminal activities. In addition, Tsaregorodtsev, through third parties, influenced suspects and defendants in a criminal case being processed by the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, in order to obtain their refusal to testify, including about the fact of giving him a bribe.
From the testimony of the witness it follows that after the arrest by officers of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Tsaregorodtsev told her that he himself feared criminal prosecution. At the same time, using his official connections, he resolves the issue of transferring these persons to a pre-trial detention center in Perm and the subsequent termination of their criminal prosecution.
It is known that in April, when choosing a preventive measure, Tsaregorodtsev’s lawyers asked that he be prohibited from certain actions. In September, they petitioned to replace their detention in a pre-trial detention center with house arrest.
“Kommersant”, 09/13/2023, “Hackers paid for the services of the FSB”: Moreover, the FSB’s own security service, which was investigating Mr. Tsaregorodtsev, came to the conclusion that if a milder preventive measure is chosen against him, the security officer could not only escape, but also continue to engage in criminal activities, using the services of his acquaintances in the cybercriminal environment. […] Now the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation continues to check the officer for involvement in other corruption-related crimes, and it is possible that by the end of the investigation more episodes will be added to his case. — Insert K.ru
As the Properm.ru journalist previously wrote, on February 9, 2022, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow sent to pre-trial detention the general director of the Saratovfilm film company Denis Pachevsky, entrepreneur Alexander Kovalev, Transtechcom employee Artyom Bystrykh, co-owner of the Perm Get-net Artyom Zaitsev, as well as two unemployed – Vladislav Gilev and Yaroslav Solovyov. All of them were charged under Part 2 of Art. 187 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal use of computer programs intended for receiving, issuing, transferring funds, committed by a group of persons).
@vchkogpu, 09.13.2023 17:35: The Cheka-OGPU learned that the head of the counterintelligence department of the Perm FSB Directorate, Grigory Tsaregorodtsev, who was detained for a 100-million bribe, protected a large hacker group that traded information from bank cards. […] As the Cheka-OGPU managed to find out, the hackers sold data from European and American cards and also stole money from them. The work was carried out through two sites – trump-dmps.ru and fe-accl8.ru. Traffic from them went to the data center, the base of which belongs to Zaitsev’s Get-Net LLC. In Perm, he is a well-known programmer, and his company supplies services to the local FSB. For example, in 2016, security officers purchased communication channels from Zaitsev, and the following year they rented premises. After the arrest of the hackers, investigators from the Ministry of Internal Affairs began to notice a strange interest in the topic on the part of the head of the FSB department for the Perm Territory. Grigory Tsaregorodtsev tried in every possible way to transfer the detainees to the Perm pre-trial detention center under the pretext of carrying out certain events. It turned out that Tsaregorodtsev acted as a “roof” for a group of hackers in exchange for monthly payments.
Moreover, a classified witness in the case: a girl (S.L.S.) said that Vladislav Gilev, who previously headed the trade and construction company Uralenergostroy (one of the partners of Transtechcom Bystrykh), gave Tsaregorodtsev 100 million rubles in cash. The transfer was carried out by their mutual friend, Gilev’s business partner, Alexander Kovalev. Also, according to the witness, through her Tsaregorodtsev tried to calm the hackers, claiming that he was making every effort to get them out of prison. However, after a year behind bars and multiple court rejections of defense motions and appeals regarding mitigation of the preventive measure, the detainees allegedly decided to “dump” their curator and betrayed the fact of transferring money intended to bribe investigators. — Insert K.ru
How official then reported to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, “This is the third hacker group whose activities have been stopped in Russia since the beginning of 2022. Earlier, members of a hacker group were arrested in a case of cyber fraud in Moscow REvil And The Infraud Organizationsome of whom were placed under house arrest as part of a pre-trial cooperation agreement.”
According to Kommersant, the case of the Perm hackers is now being considered by the Savyolovsky District Court. According to the case file, the first hearing in the case took place in August 2023.