Washed money through cryptocurrency: Hacker from Odessa helped Russian mafiosis (photo)
According to the investigation that reached the final point, Russian businessman Maxim Khakimov and experienced hacker Denis Katana used the purchase of cryptocurrencies to launder the funds of the former Soviet criminal organization. Katana, who is considered one of the largest cybercriminals in the world, was arrested for stealing money from ATMs and used cryptocurrencies to laundering.
Khakimov was responsible for financial engineering and transferring funds from his clients to money laundering. They were engaged in extortion and in contact with the killes of Russian origin. In this case, it was found that Russian businessmen contacted Spanish businessmen to laundering money. They opened bank accounts and engaged in cryptocurrency trade.
All these agreements were made through the purchase and sale of real estate, land plots, restaurants, transfer or moving money between companies. Money came from companies outside Spain and were invested in real estate and a rest in Spain. The case was revealed through the investigation of the provincial police brigade of Alicante. Investments of Russian businessmen related to organized crime in Spain attracted the attention of investigators after the displacement of capital.
It was found that funds of unjustified origin were translated through banking operations. As a result of the investigation from Benidorm, Katana was sentenced to 4 years in prison. On cryptocurrency wallets, Katana totaling more than 15,000 bitcoins. However, in the framework of the case, the judge mentioned only one of them with a balance of 5,000 bitcoins (55 million euros at the time of criminal transactions, ed. ).
According to a number of Ukrainian and Russian media, Denis Tokarenko was born in the Magadan region of the Russian Federation. In 2015, one of the banks of the Russian Federation found theft of 60 million rubles from its accounts, and local security forces found that Tokarenko was one of the organizers of the crime. The man was wanted, after which it turned out that in 2013 he moved to Odessa, received Ukrainian citizenship, and made a new passport in the name of Denis Katan.
In 2014, he and his family hacker moved to Spain, where he acquired real estate in Alicante. Even then, Katana was acquainted with Khakimov, who, through his lawyer, handed over money for the lattice, and suggested that he hire killer to deal with his debts. Tokarenko was detained in 2018 by a man because of a pure accident - he forgot to pay for the purchased car, and during the consideration of this incident, the police found that he was wanted on charges of theft of banking information.
We will remind, in August the media wrote that the hacker received almost a million dollars and donated money to the Armed Forces. Representatives of the Charitable Foundation, which "White Hacker" transferred money, called on other cybercrumbs to join such an initiative. At the same time, it became known that hackers broke the Mosmatkbti website and merged data on the Muscovites that support the war in Ukraine.