OP Yesterday - 04:44 PM
The arrests were carried out on Thursday in Kosovo, where citizens of this country - Ardit Kutleshi, Jetmir Kutleshi and Shpend Sokolli - were detained. The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted the first two for their involvement in Rydox operations, and they are awaiting extradition to the U.S.
Ardit and Jetmir Kutleshi are charged with several crimes related to their roles as administrators on Rydox, including identity theft, conspiracy to steal identity, payment fraud, and money laundering. If convicted, they each face up to five years for each charge, ten years for fraud with means of payment, and up to 20 years for money laundering.
Since its launch in February 2016, merchants on the Rydox platform have made more than 7,600 transactions that have sold stolen credit card information, logins, passwords and personal information (social security numbers, names and addresses) of thousands of Americans, as well as various tools for committing cybercrimes. Rydox also offered more than 321,000 other "cybercrime products" for sale to more than 18,000 users, including tools and materials for committing crimes, such as manuals and spam tools.
According to the prosecution, in order to make a purchase, registered users had to deposit cryptocurrency into their Rydox accounts and then pay through Perfect Money, Ethereum, Litecoin, Bitcoin (BTC), Monero, Ripple, Tron or Verge, which were transferred to cryptocurrency wallets controlled by Rydox. After depositing funds, they fell under the control of the defendants, who managed the platform's wallets. Rydox also charged a one-time fee for permission to become a seller on the platform, the amount of which ranged from $200 to $500. Sellers received 60% of sales revenues, while the market itself kept 40%.
The United States received court permission to confiscate the domain Rydox[.]CC, through which the criminal market site was accessed. Also, with the help of the Royal Malaysian Police, the FBI seized the servers on which the site was hosted and closed it. In addition, the U.S. received court permission to confiscate about $225,000 in cryptocurrency from the defendants' accounts. The operation was carried out with the participation of the FBI in Pittsburgh, the Albanian National Bureau of Investigation (BKH), the Albanian Directorate for Combating Cybercrime, the Kosovo Special Prosecutor's Office, the Kosovo Police and the Royal Malaysian Police.
"The Rydox marketplace was a one-stop-shop where more than 18,000 of its users could choose from more than 300,000 cybercrime tools," U.S. Attorney Eric G. Olshan said Thursday.
Ardit and Jetmir Kutleshi are charged with several crimes related to their roles as administrators on Rydox, including identity theft, conspiracy to steal identity, payment fraud, and money laundering. If convicted, they each face up to five years for each charge, ten years for fraud with means of payment, and up to 20 years for money laundering.
Since its launch in February 2016, merchants on the Rydox platform have made more than 7,600 transactions that have sold stolen credit card information, logins, passwords and personal information (social security numbers, names and addresses) of thousands of Americans, as well as various tools for committing cybercrimes. Rydox also offered more than 321,000 other "cybercrime products" for sale to more than 18,000 users, including tools and materials for committing crimes, such as manuals and spam tools.
According to the prosecution, in order to make a purchase, registered users had to deposit cryptocurrency into their Rydox accounts and then pay through Perfect Money, Ethereum, Litecoin, Bitcoin (BTC), Monero, Ripple, Tron or Verge, which were transferred to cryptocurrency wallets controlled by Rydox. After depositing funds, they fell under the control of the defendants, who managed the platform's wallets. Rydox also charged a one-time fee for permission to become a seller on the platform, the amount of which ranged from $200 to $500. Sellers received 60% of sales revenues, while the market itself kept 40%.
The United States received court permission to confiscate the domain Rydox[.]CC, through which the criminal market site was accessed. Also, with the help of the Royal Malaysian Police, the FBI seized the servers on which the site was hosted and closed it. In addition, the U.S. received court permission to confiscate about $225,000 in cryptocurrency from the defendants' accounts. The operation was carried out with the participation of the FBI in Pittsburgh, the Albanian National Bureau of Investigation (BKH), the Albanian Directorate for Combating Cybercrime, the Kosovo Special Prosecutor's Office, the Kosovo Police and the Royal Malaysian Police.
"The Rydox marketplace was a one-stop-shop where more than 18,000 of its users could choose from more than 300,000 cybercrime tools," U.S. Attorney Eric G. Olshan said Thursday.
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