The Federal Police Administration announced that it had identified the perpetrators and returned the money that was fraudulently transferred to foreign accounts controlled by these persons.
In a major operation, the investigators of the Department for Cybercrime in the Federal Police Administration of the Federal Ministry of Internal Affairs managed to return funds in the amount of 850.000 euros.
“Investigators of the Department for Cybercrime in the Federal Police Administration of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, under the supervision of the Cantonal Prosecutor’s Office of the Canton Sarajevo (CS), identified the perpetrators of criminal acts and returned funds in the amount of 850.000 euros to the legal entity, which were fraudulently transferred to foreign accounts controlled by persons who commit fraud,” it was announced.
Reports on the commission of criminal offenses will be filed against eight identified persons, who are suspected of having committed the criminal offenses of “Association for the purpose of committing criminal offenses”, “Money laundering” and “Computer fraud” from the Criminal Code of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH).
Namely, the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) announced earlier that it had observed a large number of cases related to fraud that harm companies in BiH.
“Fraudulent behavior is carried out in such a way that legal entities from BiH are sent, via e-mail, amended instructions for payment to their suppliers from abroad, without the consent and knowledge of these suppliers, which results in the issuance of a payment order. In this way, funds from the accounts of legal entities opened with commercial banks in BiH are transferred to foreign accounts under the control of persons who commit fraud. The transferred funds are immediately forwarded and ultimately withdrawn in cash from one of the accounts abroad, which causes damage to companies from BiH,” SIPA stated earlier, Klix.ba reports.
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