The malefactor, a 33-year-old Lviv resident, was exposed by officers of the Department for Combating Cybercrime in Lviv Oblast together with investigators from the Lviv District Police Department за2 under the procedural guidance of the Frankivsk District Prosecutor’s Office in Lviv.
According to law enforcement officers, the head of a branch of one of the banking institutions, being an authorized person and having access to the banking system, illegally copied digital electronic signatures of heads of legal entities, which he later used to simulate document circulation. He later created false information on the bank’s electronic network about attracting new customers, for which he received bonuses or additional bonuses. In this way, the attacker illegally received from the bank charges totaling about 100 thousand hryvnias.
Investigators informed the head of the institution about the suspicion of committing a crime under Part 1 of Article 362. Unauthorized actions with information processed in computers, automated systems, computer networks or stored on such media, committed by a person who has the right of access to it) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The sanction of the article provides for a penalty – a fine of two thousand to four thousand non-taxable minimum incomes or correctional labor for up to two years.
The pre-trial investigation is ongoing.
Lviv Oblast Police Communication Department