A spectacular case of internet fraud has found legal consequences. The Braunschweig district court has now sentenced them because two rappers swindled 420,000 euros.
- Judgment in Lower Saxony.
- Rappers captured almost half a million.
- The brazen fraud was solved by cybercrime specialists from Göttingen and Braunschweig.
Göttingen / Braunschweig - Cybercrime specialists from the Göttingen Public Prosecutor's Office and the Braunschweig Police Inspection had arrested several suspected rappers in October 2019 who had accessed data from bank customers using fraudulently obtained data and had transferred more than 420,000 euros abroad.
Rappers capture almost half a million with brazen fraud in Lower Saxony
The two alleged main perpetrators - a 31-year-old student from Langenhagen and a 29-year-old bank apprentice from Seelze, originally from Goslar - had to answer before the regional court in Braunschweig.
According to a judicial spokesman, the court sentenced the 31-year-old to four years and three months 'imprisonment, and the 29-year-old to two years and three months' imprisonment. Another 29-year-old co-accused from Goslar was given a suspended sentence of one and a half years.
Rapper with brazen fraud in Lower Saxony: Police secured 160,000 euros
According to the court, the accused are guilty of particularly serious fraud. In the course of their investigations, the police were able to secure around 160,000 euros and return them to the victims.
The court ordered the remaining amounts of money to be confiscated. In the case of the 31-year-old, who was convicted of three crimes, it is 265,000 euros, for the 29-year-old, who was found guilty in two cases, 129,000 euros. The third defendant was ordered to confiscate 8,000 euros; the court classified him as an assistant and not as an accomplice.
Tough verdict after fraud in Lower Saxony: Rappers have to go to prison for several years
The public prosecutor had given the 31-year-old a prison sentence of three years and nine months, a 29-year sentence for the 29-year-old, and a two-year suspended sentence for the 29-year-old from Goslar. The defense lawyers pleaded suspended sentences without making a specific application.
The court held the 31-year-old to be the "head" of the company. With the money he had stolen, he had bought expensive equipment for a professional recording studio in the basement of his apartment in Langenhagen. Both of the main defendants are rappers and also released a music video in 2019.
Judgment in Lower Saxony: Rapper cheated bank customers by almost half a million
One of the videos showed 500-euro notes, said the spokesman for the responsible central office for cyber and computer crime at the Göttingen public prosecutor's office, Mohamed Bou Sleiman.
The fraud was made possible by another suspect from Achim, against whom a separate investigation is pending. He is said to have leaked the personal data of wealthy bank customers to the 31-year-old.
In order to track down the masterminds, the investigators had monitored many telephone connections and online communication.
Rapper with brazen fraud in Lower Saxony: How the "money transfer" worked
In order to disguise their perpetration and the way the fraudulently obtained money, the two main defendants always acted in the background and made use of various helpers, said investigator Bou Sleiman. These would then have opened various accounts with fake ID cards that were purchased on the Darknet.
Larger sums were then transferred to these accounts from the spied accounts of the wealthy bank customers via tele-banking. The money was then also forwarded to Bitcoin accounts abroad.
By Heidi Niemann
The case made waves. In 2019, the rappers captured almost half a million with their fraud. So the police tracked them down. An insurance broker was also given a tough verdict on fraud. He goes to prison *, despite parole.
* hna.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
