The Nikulinsky District Court of Moscow confiscated more than 1,000 bitcoins from the former head of the investigation department for the Tverskoy District, Marat Tambiev, who is accused of taking bribes from members of the Infraud Organization hacker group. This is stated in the message in the Telegram channel of the Moscow courts of general jurisdiction.
They specified that the digital currency in the form of Bitcoin in the amount of 1032.1 BTC was converted into Russia’s income.
Note that the cost of 1032.1 bitcoins in the court decision is calculated as of January 30, 2023. Then it was equivalent to 1.662 billion rubles. at the then exchange rate of the Central Bank. As of June 19, this amount is 2.2 billion rubles.
As RBC clarifies, Tambiev was detained on March 25, 2022 by officers of the Internal Security Department of the FSB. Initially, he was suspected of taking a bribe in the amount of 10 million rubles. The man was detained while receiving a bribe from a lawyer – he was handed 200 thousand rubles. marked bills, the rest of the amount was a dummy.
Later, the Kommersant publication, citing the case file, wrote that Tambiev had previously received a bribe in bitcoins from hackers Mark and Konstantin Bergmanov, as well as Kirill Samokutyaevsky, corresponding to almost $ 24 million for not seizing their assets. The hackers later received suspended sentences for the illegal circulation of means of payment.
Source: Rosbalt
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