Former Russian Investigative Committee investigators Marat Tambiev, accused of taking a record-breaking bribe of 7 billion rubles in bitcoins, and Kristina Lyakhovenko, another suspect in the case accused of illegally taking several bitcoin data storage devices, are seen inside a defendant's glass cage during a verdict hearing at the Balashikha City Court in Balashikha, outside Moscow, Russia. At the time, Russian law enforcement was cracking down on the Russian branch of an international cybercrime syndicate known as the Infraud Organization. According to court documents, one of the men, Major Marat Tambiev of the committee's Moscow district branch, demanded that the hackers pay him 2,718 bitcoins, the equivalent of around $181 million at current bitcoin prices. This is the largest known bribe in modern Russian history.
- Categories: Crime, Law & Justice
- Location: Balashikha, Russia
- Event date: 08.10.2024
- Date published: 08.10.2024
- Author: Sergey Bobylev
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 5912x3856px, 13.2Mb
- Job-ID: cf5094e783fbbc6b