Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb.25 / Trend , H. Bagirov /
A trial over an organized group engaged in misappropriating money from foreigners' bank accounts illegally entering computer database has begun.
Serious Crimes Court held preparatory hearing on Azerbaijani citizens- Elgan Veliyev, Elchin Abbasov, Ruslan Hasanov, Abidin Hasanzade, Firudin Mayilov, as well as Syrian citizen Ibrahim Muhammed's criminal cases.
The judicial review is scheduled for March.5.
It was revealed that Elgan Veliyev, Elchin Abbasov, Ruslan Hasanov, Abidin Hasanzade and Ibrahim Muhammed entering into a criminal conspiracy with foreign citizens, whose name are not disclosed for investigation reasons, founded Limited Company Nur-AB and registered it as legal entity.
Foreign members of an organized group illegally purchased and send numbers and codes of large number of plastic cards belonging to customers of U.S. banks, Canada, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Sweden and other countries to group members in Azerbaijan. By using these illegally obtained computer data group members in Azerbaijan headed by Elgan Veliyev by means of POS terminal of the Limited Company Nur-AB, used for cashless transfers through credit cards, has transferred to the Nur-AB company's account about 300,000 manats.
Organized group by means of POS terminal only using of plastic cards codes of Germany's bank clients have been carried out non-cash payment operations worth $ 130,000 manats, this amount was tranfered to the Nur-AB company's account. About 54,000 manats have been taken from a Ltd's bank account in early May, 2009. But they failed to take rest part of the money.
As a result of operational actions by Azerbaijani Security Ministry's employees Elchin Abbasov and Abidin Hasanzade were arrested on the spot June 8, 2009.
They are charged with Article 271.2.1 and 271.2.3 (illegal access to electron-computer information on preliminary arrangement by group of persons),177.3.1 and 177.3.2 (theft on preliminary arrangement by group of persons) of the Criminal Code.
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