BRUSSELS (Sputnik) – The suspects, mainly from Nigeria, Cameroon and Spain, are accused of hacking into corporate email accounts of medium and large European companies to cheat customers into sending payments to bank accounts controlled by the group.
The cybergang then transferred their profits outside the European Union through a sophisticated network of money-laundering transactions, according to Europol.
The joint operation was carried out by Italian, Spanish, Polish and UK police as the group operated in these four countries, as well as in Belgium and Georgia.
Police also seized laptops, telephones and credit cards, as well as data storage devices and forged documents after conducting searches at almost 60 properties.
