Movie-like robbery of 70 million dollars, Serbian police and FBI arrest 11 people

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In cooperation with the competent judicial bodies of Serbia and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), apartments have been searched at 16 locations in our country today on the order of the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime, and 11 people, citizens of Serbia, Montenegro, Australia and the Philippines, have been arrested.

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All those arrested have been detained, after which they will be questioned uner the procedure of international legal assistance that Serbia provides to the competent judicial bodies of the United States of America, the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime announced.

It is suspected that those arrested, as an organized criminal group, participated from 2011 until today in the setting up, promotion and organization of at least 16 fake investment platforms by using the internet and websites, thus obtaining illegal property gains worth over 70 million dollars.

How the thieves came up with their perfect plan

The group was finding investors around the world, including those in the North District of Texas, who invested in fake platforms for binary options, where members of the group created fake trade transactions, fake withdrawal certificates and fake money transfer certificates, according to the prosecution.

Members of the organized criminal group offered to invest, using false identities and fake titles, by email or video conferencing, and transfer their "investments" to international bank accounts linked to the group's organizer.

After that, the group, on the order of the organizers, shuttered these fake investment platforms and after a while reopened new ones under the same already developed method of work.

For this reason there is well-founded suspicion that the organizer and members of this group obtained illegal property gains in the amount of over 70 million dollars.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)