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The anti-mafia broke into a luxury complex near Razlog a few days ago. A mother of a 7-month-old baby and her husband were handcuffed from one of the houses there. The family, which shows enviable well-being, was on a long vacation, he said. Struma.com.
The young detainee is an accountant in one of the companies of the Israeli Gal Barak, known as a torturer of an international criminal group for fraud through fictitious trading of financial instruments, computer crimes and money laundering.
The accountant was arrested in a specialized operation by agents of the Cybersecurity Department of the General Directorate for the Fight against Organized Crime, prosecutors of the Special Prosecutor’s Office and investigators of the SP Investigations Department as part of the investigation of Gal Barak, an organization organized international. criminal group neutralized in 2020.
The actions of the special services were taken in compliance with a European investigation order issued by the General Prosecutor’s Office in Bamberg – Central Authority for Cyber Crimes in Bavaria, and are a continuation of the large-scale joint operation of the police and judicial authorities of Germany, Austria, Serbia and Bulgaria against the international network against crime on April 2, 2020
According to European arrest warrants issued by the Bamberg prosecutor’s office, five people were arrested in the country: three Bulgarians, a Czech citizen and a citizen of the Republic of Montenegro.
By decrees of the prosecutors of the Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office and the District Prosecutor’s Offices in Pernik and Blagoevgrad (who were entrusted with the execution of the orders), the five were detained for up to 72 hours. The two foreigners were arrested in court.
Two others, implicated in complicity in the criminal network, are under house arrest and one under “subscription.” Barak’s accountant was released on bail for being the mother of a baby.
During the searches of 6 addresses, 5 cars and personal searches, documents related to criminal activity were found and seized, as well as a large amount of computer and telecommunications equipment.
During the joint actions to neutralize the group on April 2, 2020, three Bulgarian citizens and a German citizen, alleged leader of the criminal network, were arrested in Bulgaria. Another 5 people were arrested in Serbia. In Germany, the group’s bank account was blocked for more than 2.5 million euros. More than thirty bank accounts have been placed under surveillance, personal property and money have been seized.
The group’s investigation was started in 2019 by the Bamberg prosecutor’s office, together with a team from the Austrian Central Prosecutor’s Office to combat economic crime and corruption. The reason is that in Germany more than 250 victims of fraud have been identified for more than 7 million euros. In Austria, about 850 victims have been registered with more than 2.2 million euros. It has been established that the group’s victims are citizens of many European countries. The damage is assumed to be many times greater, as not all fraud victims have filed complaints.
Participants of the criminal network have encouraged their potential victims – “investors” by email and with advertising banners to register on an unlicensed platform for digital trading with binary options, cryptocurrencies and other financial instruments created by the group.
The initial registration fee was 250 to 300 euros. Respondents were immediately “attacked” with high-income offers from so-called agents and “personal intermediaries” at call centers located mainly in Bulgaria, Serbia and Ukraine. Each “investor” was given access to a bogus platform application to monitor how their money “increased” from realized trading profits.
Virtually all the amounts invested have been transferred to accounts in different parts of the world. After a series of subsequent bank transactions, in order to launder money, the funds were concentrated in accounts controlled by the international criminal group and distributed among its participants, according to the special prosecutor’s office.
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