Russian will go to prison for three years for fraud with bank cards

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The court in the United States sentenced Timur Safin, one of four defendants in a bank card fraud case, to three years in prison and ordered him to pay damages to the victims in the amount of about 250 thousand dollars.

According to the documents available Russian Agency of Legal and Judicial Information, the prosecutor appealed to the Federal Court of the Central District of California for the appointment to Safin of 4 punishment years of imprisonment. In this case, the requirement to confiscate the property of the defendant was removed.

The defense, in turn, asked Safin to be sentenced to 2,5 years in prison. The lawyer referred to the fact that this was the first offense of his client, as well as to the fact that he was likely to be deported to Russia after serving his sentence, despite the legal residence permit he received in the United States.

Safin pleaded guilty to two counts of the charges against him: obtaining illegal access through technical means in order to extract material gain and theft of personal data under aggravating circumstances.

The criminal case came to court in mid-April 2016. Soon after this, the accused, among whom, along with Safin, are other citizens of the Russian Federation - Irina Fedoseeva, Dmitry Fedoseev, Kristina Gerasimova, as well as Belarusian Sergei Patapau, appeared in court for the first time.

According to the indictment, Safin, Fedoseev, Fedoseyev and Patapau made the issuance of bank cards with a limit of 500 thousand to 5 million dollars, illegally gaining access to a software platform through which reserve savings accounts were administered. The issued cards were sent to the specified addresses and received on the hands of forged documents.

According to the allegations, the defendants used fraudulently obtained cards to purchase expensive goods, which were later either resold or exchanged for gift certificates.

During the search, law enforcement officers discovered hundreds of fake bank cards and equipment for their manufacture, as well as personal data of the legitimate account holders in whose name the cards were issued.

According to the US Department of Justice, the total amount of damage as a result of fraudulent actions of the accused can be from 3 to 5 million dollars.

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