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Milena Miteva, Dimitar Karbanov and Lubomir Bolshev
refused to return the money
A nervous jazz singer, angry at a crashed Futurocoin cryptocurrency transfer system, unknowingly finds a weakness in the coin mining chain and uses the pass to steal over 1 million BGN. The day is March 24, 2018, and Dimitar Karbanov will understand that the quick button presses he has made are the reason why he receives much more than the requested money.
The story of the biggest cryptocurrency theft in Bulgaria started 3 years earlier. Then Karbanov, in his 20s, met Milena Miteva. They are both originally from Pazardzhik and have always lived in the city. They have a difference of more than 20 years, but their interests overlap. They mainly talk about multi-level marketing, they help each other in two of these companies.
The two are getting closer and meanwhile Milena is quite active with different cryptocurrencies. In January 2018
she offers him
turn on
in the extraction of
futurecoins
They are extracted from the futurnetwork system. With it, like other cryptocurrencies, the computer calculates tasks and every 10 minutes a certain amount is extracted. It is distributed to all participants in the process known as excavation. Everyone takes according to their contribution to solve the blockchain.
To register Dimitar, Milena sent him an invitation and became his guarantor. In this way, the system confirms that it is a real person. The omission is that it doesn’t check if the PINs and names entered are real. However, Dimitar gave his true data, the investigation of the Special Prosecutor’s Office and the Cybercrime Department of the General Directorate for Combating Organized Crime has been established.
He also included friends, bought coins before he started mining. Due to their misunderstanding, most gave Dimitar to manage their accounts. Thus came March 24, 2018. Then Karbanov spoke with his girlfriend Marina Tilyanova. He wanted to withdraw money from his virtual wallet, but did not know how.
Karbanov took on the task. He selected the amount and pressed the “Transfer Futurocoin” button. The page started to load, but nothing happened. Karbanov got angry and made many quick clicks on the button. At one point, a message appeared saying that the transaction was complete. However, Dimitar looked at Tilyanova’s profile and noticed that the number was many times greater.
He immediately called Milena Miteva and told her about the case. He asked what had happened, but Karbanov admitted that he did not know. “So you’re lucky,” Miteva replied.
Several more transactions from Karbanov from friend profiles followed. Due to accidents, he clicked again fast and received a lot more money. Only in the fifth case did he understand how it was going and that there was a gap in the system.
He immediately told Miteva, who decided to take advantage. She mocked and made 2 fake profiles with fake names and fictitious PINs, which she became a guarantor with her real account. Either out of greed or because she already managed the account of an acquaintance, Miteva also used her account scheme.
yes
from March 26 to
April 6, 2018
high
cryptocurrency
value
BGN 1,124,198.81
He immediately transferred all the money to new fake accounts in his personal account.
Karbanov was a little smarter than her. Withdrawn from Lyubomir Bolchev’s account. The dairy’s head of production had been involved in the mining of Futurocoin and had close ties with Karbanov and Miteva, but did not particularly understand how it worked. Sam wanted to participate in the scam. The two weighed heavily, transferred to the profile of the jazz singer.
However, the Polish company behind Futurocoin Networks took notice. And not about the fraud itself and how it happened. They realized that Karbanov, Miteva, and Bolshev had far more future coins in their wallets than they could get. So they sent them notary invitations to return the money.
After reading them, the three of them met at a cafe. They discussed what to do and whether to return the stolen item. They decided that since the currency was not stolen from their real accounts, the company had no way of accessing the entire scheme.
To cover their tracks, they converted Futurocoins into various other cryptocurrencies: Etheriums, Bitcoins, etc. They used different cryptocurrency exchanges, where they exchanged them.
Although they raised around BGN 5 million, the three did not hit him alive. Only Karbanov bought a Toyota. To take it, he asked Bolchev to transfer 5 bitcoins to him. He then exchanged them for 60,000 BGN at a desk in Sofia and took the car from the Toyota representative’s office in Bulgaria at the end of October 2018.
However, he could not be happy with her, since the three were arrested on November 22, 2018 during an action by the Ministry of the Interior and the Prosecutor’s Office. Computers and flash drives filled with cryptocurrency wallets, laptops with data from multiple accounts in which the seized digital money was kept, were confiscated from their homes. Numerous digital combinations have also been found: access codes to specific platforms that offer cryptocurrency storage and acquisition services. According to the researchers, the group needed the data to prepare its next attack, which would be more than 15 million BGN.
The specialized prosecutor’s office also confiscated all stolen cryptocurrencies. She handed them over to the GDCOP for safekeeping and the Department of Cybercrime returned them to the Polish company. She sent a letter stating that there were no further claims in the case.
The company did not even know how the scam came about. It was found out by the Special Prosecutor’s Office and the Cybercrime Department of the General Directorate for Combating Organized Crime. They found out how the seizure occurred and accused the three of being involved in a criminal conspiracy and computer fraud. For the Toyota purchase, Karbanov is also accused of laundering criminally obtained money.
Although she did not initially plead guilty, the indisputable evidence prompted Milena to settle with the state prosecutor’s office. She received a suspended sentence with 3 years of probation and a fine of BGN 6,000. The case against Karbanov and Bolshev continues in the general order, but there is no obstacle for them to request settlements. According to people familiar with the matter, even if the case does not go to court, they will not receive effective sentences. The reason is that they have clean files and the file has been restored, although not from them.
Today, both Miteva and Karbanov continue to deal with cryptocurrencies. However, there is no evidence that they are committing crimes.
The two are still close. Karbanov continues to sing and has become a Zumba coach. Miteva has several companies and Bolchev continues to lead dairy production.
A few days after “24 Chasa” was the only one to announce the Miteva deal, he told Nova TV. “My personal photos in a bathing suit made it to the media,” she said of the post’s illustration, but declined to discuss her deal. “I am very sad. My great pain is that my loved ones really had to endure this. In fact, this is due to my actions, which, although unintentional, happened anyway.
Sorry
much
Sorry “
she said,
Although it was definitely proven, and before the court Miteva admitted that he wanted and looked for a way to drain the future coins, and then he flatly refused to return them.
And although Miteva does not go to jail, the sentence will curb her political ambitions, since those sentenced to prison, even on parole, cannot run. Twice she has tried to come to power. She was a candidate for the deputy of the UDF in 2013. She was even first on the list of the Pazardzhik district, but the Blues did not raise the required 4% and did not enter the parliament. 6 years earlier she tried to be municipal councilor of the local coalition “Digna Bulgaria”, but again without success.
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