Five new arrests made in $45M cyberheist case
On Monday, five defendants were arrested in connection with their participation in a massive cyberheist campaign that inflicted $45 million in losses on the global financial system in a matter of hours in early 2013.
Defendants Anthony Diaz, Saul Franjul, Saul Genao, Jaindhi Polanco and Jose Angeley Valerio were members of the New York-based cell of an international cybercrime organization, which used sophisticated intrusion techniques to hack into the systems of financial institutions, steal prepaid debit card data and make fraudulent ATM withdrawals on a global scale.
Newly seized photographic evidence reveals that the defendants sent the lion’s share of the proceeds to the organization’s leaders – including $800,000 of criminal cash proceeds sent in luggage and transported to Florida by bus for delivery to a cyberheist organizer.
The superseding indictment unsealed Monday in Brooklyn Federal Court charges the five arrested defendants with conspiracy to commit access device fraud. They were scheduled to be arraigned by U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert M. Levy at the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of New York A sixth defendant, Franklyn Ferreira, is a fugitive from justice.