Karina Kostromina a female from Latvia has been charged with conducting money-laundering operations in a complex global criminal suit against a gang in Eastern Europe, which employed malicious software for stealing huge money, out of the accounts of British banks, published Zdnet.co.uk dated October 4, 2011.
Proved as guilty, judges at Croydon Crown Court (Croydon, UK) punished Kostromina with a 2-year prison sentence owing to the role she played within the e-crime that yielded a few million pounds.
A worldwide police investigation under the banner, Operation Lath, engaging Central e-Crime Unit of UK's Metropolitan Police and USA's Federal Bureau of Investigation, when launched, enabled to catch the gang whose fraud consisted mainly of computer hacking as well as money laundering.
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