Videos – Daventry man arrested as part of National Crime Agency UK operation

Fourteen people, including one from Northamptonshire, were arrested in the UK today on suspicion of offences including laundering stolen money for international cyber criminals.

The group is suspected to have laundered more than £11 million stolen using the Dridex and Dyre streams of malicious software (malware). NCA officers believe the malware was developed and deployed by skilled cyber criminals in Eastern Europe.

The malware infects computers when the user receives and opens documents in seemingly legitimate emails, enabling criminals to gain access to their bank details. Investigators allege that the money would then be dispersed in smaller amounts to other bank accounts in the UK and in Eastern Europe.

Those arrested are suspected to have laundered the criminal profits through hundreds of accounts at various UK banks, using false identity documents and ‘money mules’ recruited and controlled by the crime group.

Today’s operation was led by the National Crime Agency, which deployed 160 officers and executed 13 search warrants. The NCA was supported by police officers from the Metropolitan, Northamptonshire, West Midlands, and Essex forces, along with Regional Organised Crime Units and Immigration Enforcement. Representatives from Moldovan and Romanian authorities were also present.
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