Israel betrayed the US by a Russian who laundered money using telephone fraud

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In the US, Russian Stanislav Nazarov, extradited from Israel, is accused of money laundering as part of an international criminal organization. Specifically, he is charged with money laundering from a fraudulent operation, the victim of which was a large insurance company in India.

According to Air force46-year-old Nazarov, who lived in the city of Or Akiva and has Israeli and Russian citizenship, is one of the 19 people who were brought in the spring in Washington on four federal cases of fraud and money laundering. Announcing this on 1 in March, the US Department of Justice reported that at that time 16 of them were arrested in New York, Washington, Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany and Israel.

On the same day, Israeli police arrested three more suspects in the US case, including Nazarov, who, according to the indictment, was associated with the Hariri criminal clan, consisting of Arabs and Israelis.

The arrests in Israel were carried out as part of a police operation codenamed Case No. 278: Social Engineering. Together with Nazarov, 19 people were arrested in Israel.

Their social engineering consisted in the fact that they gave themselves in e-mails or SMS-messages for the heads of insurance companies, banks or pension funds and gave their employees orders to transfer funds to accounts indicated by fraudsters.

In the case of Nazarov, for example, employees of the state-owned insurance company headquartered in Mumbai were told on behalf of its director that he had made a confidential deal to buy shares and ordered them to transfer the first installment in the US in the amount of 1,4 million dollars. Subordinates did so.

The fraudsters managed to impersonate the company’s directors, as they retrieved his account details through phishing emails. Nazarov is accused not of conducting this operation itself, but of allegedly laundering his share of the income from it in the sum of 50 thousand dollars, transferred to him by an accomplice to Israel from the USA through Austria and Russia.

In fact, his accomplice recruited the FBI, which organized this money transfer.

The name of the accomplice is still coded in court documents as W-1 (from Witness, "witness"). They say that he met Nazarov in September 2013 in a cigar shop in Ramat Gan. He allegedly provided him with a bank account to transfer the proceeds from fraudulent transactions.

In the future, Nazarov allegedly provided W-1 with such services regularly and became his full-fledged partner, receiving 50% of income from frauds. In June 2015, W-1 flew from Israel to Washington to share the amount stolen from an Indian company among accomplices, was arrested and agreed to cooperate with the FBI, in particular, to record conversations with Nazarov.

Nazarov agreed to extradition to the United States. The case does not yet have the name of his lawyer, so attempts to get comments from the defense have so far failed.

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