The NY DA office dropped indictments on 17 people at one corporation in an identity theft investigation. The accused ran their own shop to cover the source of their ill gotten gains.
From Securityfocus.com:
Seventeen people and one Manhattan corporation were indicted this week on charges related to trafficking in stolen credit-card numbers, identity theft and cybercrime, according to the District Attorney’s Office for the County of New York.
The 173-charge indictment stems from a two-year investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Identity Theft Unit and the U.S. Secret Service of a ring of identity thieves known as the Western Express Cybercrime Group, the statement said. The company, known as Western Express International, allegedly provided financial services to other members of the group in order to conceal the source and destination of money made through credit-card and other types of fraud.
“They used conventional banks and money transmitters to move large sums of money for their clients, thus permitting their clients to remain anonymous and insulated from reporting requirements,” the District Attorney’s Office said in the statement.
Tags: ID Theft, Identity Theft
