The Postal Police, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Court of Genoa, arrested a 40-year-old Russian woman, who has been resident in the Ligurian capital for years, as she belongs to a transnational organization dedicated to computer fraud, receiving stolen goods and money laundering.
In everyday life, she was a quiet mother of the family, in reality, behind an apparent normality hid an attractive expert hacker: she was in fact a computer engineer with a passion for crime and cryptocurrencies.
The illicit trafficking of women, the Ligurian terminal of a criminal association dedicated to computer fraud and money laundering, has not escaped the experts of the Postal and Communications Police of Genoa who, at the end of a careful and complex investigation, have arrested.
Expert in creating new identities, she collected the items she bought on e-commerce portals using funds, credit cards and bank accounts of unsuspecting victims from different delivery points in the province of Genoa.
To evade any checks, the woman presented herself at the collection points with false documents or recruited third parties who, for a fee, collected the packages on her behalf.
Mobile phones of the latest generation and electronic material of the highest quality, shipped to Russia, in favor of subjects belonging to the organization or offered for sale on the well-known portals dedicated to e-commerce.
The lucrative proceeds were then laundered through cryptocurrency purchases at numerous international exchanges.
The investigators of the Postal Police, thanks to technical computer investigations combined with traditional ones, have ascertained that the woman belongs to a transnational organization dedicated to computer fraud, stolen goods and money laundering, with the consequent issue by the GIP at the Court of Genoa of an Ordinance of precautionary custody in prison against the suspect.
During the house search, the investigators of the financial cybercrime section of the Postal Police seized numerous POS and hundreds of credit cards specially activated to launder the proceeds deriving from scams and computer fraud.
The analysis of the substantial computer material seized is still being examined by investigators.