A Russian military court sentenced 26 members of the Flint24 carding group, including alleged leader Alexei Stroganov, to prison terms of up to 15 years and fined them up to $57,000 for organizing and trafficking stolen payment card data. Investigators say the network operated from 2014 to March 2020, selling “dumps” through roughly 90 online stores and prompting coordinated March 2020 raids that seized about $432,000; #Flint24 #AlexeiStroganov
Keypoints
- Twenty-six defendants were convicted of forming an organized criminal group and illegally trafficking payment card data.
- Alexei Stroganov, known as “Flint,” received one of the longest sentences and faces separate U.S. charges for large-scale payment card fraud.
- The group ran a sophisticated carding operation from 2014 to March 2020 that sold card “dumps” used for fraudulent withdrawals and online purchases.
- Coordinated raids in March 2020 across 11 Russian regions resulted in most arrests and the seizure of roughly $432,000 in cash.
- A suspected administrator of LeakBase was detained separately after an international operation targeting the stolen-data marketplace.
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