In the US, citizens of Ukraine and Russia were charged with electronic fraud
The US authorities filed accusations in absentia of several Americans as well as citizens of Russia and Ukraine of electronic fraud and entering the database of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
This is stated in documents published on Tuesday in the electronic base of the court in Newark (New Jersey), writes TASS.
The charges were brought against the 27-year-old Ukrainian citizen Alexander Yeryomenko living in Kiev, who, according to the investigation, was the main organizer of the scheme, as well as a number of people, including several Russian citizens, and two companies.
According to the documents filed with the court, Eremenko and his associates penetrated the private databases of the American regulator, stole financial information of corporations, including information about profits, and then transferred it to exchange-traded players. They used it to carry out trading operations, and shared their means with hackers.
As a result of the fraudulent scheme, which has been in operation since 2016, the attackers were able to “in total illegally obtain more than $4,1 million,” the Securities and Exchange Commission says.
The documents also indicate two firms, both of which, according to investigators, are controlled by citizens of Ukraine. In addition, in the case are Russians Andrei Sarafanov, Lyudmila Kalinkina, Andrei Meleynikov and Ivan Soloviev.
The charges against the SEC are civil in nature. The commission asks the court to sentence the accused to a fine and payment of compensation, the amount of which is not specified.
At the same time, the New Jersey Prosecutor’s Office separately presented Eremenko and another Ukrainian citizen, Artem Radchenko, with criminal charges. Yeremenko is already taking place in the United States in a similar criminal case. In 2015, he and several dozens of suspects were accused in absentia of stealing corporate data and participating in a fraudulent scheme, which, according to the US authorities, brought in more than $ 100 million to attackers.
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