Prosecutors of the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Bucharest Court initiated, on April 25, the criminal action against two men investigated for crimes of illegal access to a computer system, fraudulent financial operations, computer forgery and forgery in documents under private signature.
It is about two employees of a bank, one 25 years old, the other 28 years old.
“In the case of the first defendant, a 25-year-old bank clerk, the prosecutors noted that on 04.02.2021, taking advantage of the fact that he had knowledge of the personal and banking data of the injured person at the age of 64, he proceeded when entering, without right, computer data into the bank’s computer system, namely name, surname, e-mail address and telephone number, in order to activate the internet banking service on the accounts of the injured person. After gaining access to the internet banking service, he redeemed the fund units owned by the injured person at that banking unit, the resulting sums being used for transfers in personal interest”, according to a press release from the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Bucharest Court.
He performed 140 transfer operations
Later, the prosecutors show, in the period 01.11.2021-11.01.2023, the young man accessed, without right, the victim’s internet banking account and fraudulently carried out a number of 140 fund transfer operations in his personal accounts, causing thus a damage of 137,286.15 euros and 5,748.38 lei.
The second defendant, aged 28, is suspected that on April 29, 2022, as a bank official, he changed, without right, in the bank’s computer system, the computer data belonging to the injured person with those of the defendant aged 25 years, respectively the telephone number and the e-mail address, in order to carry out fraudulent financial operations of transferring funds from the victim’s bank accounts.
On Thursday, the investigators made three house searches in the counties of Ilfov and Prahova, in the case concerning the two.
Initially, both were detained for 24 hours. For the official suspected of having taken the money from the bank client’s account, the prosecutors demand preventive arrest, while his accomplice was placed under judicial control.
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