(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 11 - The postal police of Genoa arrested a 40-year-old Russian hacker because she was believed to belong to a transnational organization dedicated to computer fraud, receiving stolen goods and money laundering. Ladonna was an unsuspected mother of a family who, thanks to her degree in computer engineering, dedicated herself to cryptocurrencies and online crime. According to what was ascertained by the police, the woman was the Ligurian terminal of a criminal association, expert in creating new identities, she collected from different delivery points in the province of Genoa, the objects she bought on e-commerce portals using funds, credit cards and bank accounts of unsuspecting unfortunates. In order to avoid any checks, the woman went to the collection points with false documents or recruited third people who,for a fee, they collected the parcels in his stead.
Mobile phones of the latest generation and electronic material of the highest quality, shipped to Russia, in favor of subjects belonging to the organization or offered for sale on well-known e-commerce portals.
The proceeds were then laundered through purchases of cryptocurrencies at numerous international exchanges.
During the house search, the investigators seized numerous POS and hundreds of credit cards specially activated to launder the proceeds deriving from scams and computer fraud.
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