Baltaga brothers taken into custody by the police

U.S officials state that the famous Baltaga brothers have been arrested by the federals for financial crimes that troubled U.S banks. Adrian and Gheorghe Baltaga (25 and 26 years old), originaly from Moldova, are suspected of stealing credit accounts from Fidelity Investments accounts users and laundring debit cards money from the bank to their accounts. The officials say that the debit cards was used to purchase money orders from institutions such as U.S Postal Office. U.S Postal office money orders were distributed throughout different credit cards and could have been cashed through ATM machines.

It has been a struggle for the investigators to take everything into account. These cybercrimes were well constructed and therefore hard to trace back. The evidences can not show the magnitude of the scheme, while some reports suggest that the same brothers may be resposible for the cyber crimes against Maryland title company in 2012 were the criminals managed to steal 1.7 million dollars.

In 2012, there was a similar case of fraud. One company hired dozens of people suggesting online jobs, while in meantime they were committing felonies. Criminals used to send stolen money from credit cards to various people who thought they were working for a financial firm. Then the employees would have been told to make a deposit and send those money to different locations in East Europe. Employees who help commit these crimes thought that they were working for an Australian firm that sends payments to their international collegues. The criminals used ZeuS Trojan virus which helped them collect important credit card data and initiate the payments. By the time the officials got hold of the situation, $700.000 have already been stolen and by the time they managed to stop it, 1 million dollars more.

The bank managed to trace back it's million dollars in time and save the money, but $700.000 were long gone and only now, after a long period of court meetings, a half of the money has been retrieved. The Baltaga brothers were charged with wire fraud, attempt to commit bank fraud, identify theft and more felonies. If the court accepts the charges, they will lose their $800.000 house in Fresno.