On the arrest of Ukrainian Denis K. , 34 years old, who has lived in Alicante since 2014, reported on Monday, March 26, at a press conference in Madrid, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Spain, Juan Ignacio Soido. According to the minister, this is the most dangerous cybercriminal of all, who ever managed to neutralize the Spanish police. His name is not disclosed yet. More than 100 banks from 40 countries became victims of the hacker. However, the main thefts they committed in the banks of Russia.

The operation to locate and expose the hacker Spaniards led three years with the assistance of Interpol and the American FBI. He was arrested on March 6, but in the interests of the investigation this information was not disclosed. Now the case of the arrested person is being investigated by the investigator of the National Court of Justice of Spain Manuel Garcia Castellon. Minister Soido also said that, according to preliminary data, the amount of the kidnapped exceeds 1 billion euros, although it can be a much larger amount - up to 10 billion.

About how the hacker and the criminal network he created, told DW the commissioner of the anti-cybercrime department of the National Police of Spain Rafael Perez. According to the information available to him, the Ukrainian has developed a number of viruses, through which he penetrated into computer networks of banks. Money from them was deduced by transfers to the accounts of numerous accomplices in different countries - 15 of them have already been identified - or were withdrawn directly from ATMs that were "operated" by a hacker for thousands of kilometers. For the services of the accomplices received half of the stolen amount, and the rest was sent to the group leader who kept the loot in the crypto currency.

As Peres noted, the hacker preferred Russian banks, because their security systems are often "obsolete and relatively easy to break into". He did not have any political motives. The police commissioner reported that Denis K.

also made "raids" on banks and ATMs in virtually all European countries and the United States. Only in the first trimester of 2017 they were stolen half a million euros in ATMs in Madrid. In other European countries in one day he managed to steal from 800 thousand. up to 1.5 million. Euro.

After the arrest, according to the interlocutor of DW, the court seized the cottage of the hacker, in which he lived with his wife and daughter, on his two cars and on valuables valued at half a million euros.

Source: DW.