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The Ministry of the Interior: Online shopping fraud is a crime for which the law will be held

2021-10-24T12:29:29.581Z


Damascus, SANA- Head of the Cybercrime Combating Branch at the Ministry of Interior, Colonel Louay Shalish, revealed that more than


Damascus-SANA

The head of the Cybercrime Combating Branch at the Ministry of Interior, Colonel Louay Shalish, revealed that more than 1,200 arrests have been made since the beginning of the year, and more than 160 people have been arrested, most of whom have committed crimes of online fraud, extortion, defamation and defamation of others.

In a statement to SANA's delegate, Colonel Shalish pointed out that more than one network practicing electronic extortion was arrested and managed from abroad, explaining that the information crime according to Legislative Decree No. 17 of 2012 is the crime that is committed by means of computer devices and the aim is to cause damage to the computer device or the information system, such as using the computer or the information system. It also includes cases in which computer devices are used as a means or tool to commit crimes such as libel, slander and contempt.

Colonel Shalish stated that cyber crimes that take the nature of attacking state security are dealt with by the judicial police, with the knowledge of the attorney general in the governorate. Cybercrime is defamation, slander, humiliation, breach of privacy, threats and electronic blackmail.

Among the common electronic crimes, as indicated by the head of the branch of combating fraud through e-shopping, by publishing goods or merchandise to sell them with certain specifications and prices, and when the buyer receives the commodity or product and pays for it, he is surprised that it is not displayed on the network, which is a crime punishable by law.

The Cybercrime Branch, according to Colonel Shalish, operates as a special judicial police whose goal is to investigate, search for and verify crimes and information, in addition to working through a presentation submitted by the prosecutor to the Public Prosecutor.

Source: sena

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