Romania: Five Arrested for Running Murder-for-Hire Scams
Police in Romania arrested five people for inciting murder, money laundering, and organized crime charges. According to a press release from the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT), the suspects operated fake hitman sites on the darkweb.
Romanian police arrested five suspects at request of authorities in the US.
Police with the DCCO - the Service for Combating Cybercrime searched seven houses in Gorj and Hunedoara and arrested five alleged operators of the fake murder-for-hire sites. Investigators seized 18 mobile phones, ten laptops, 15 memory sticks, seven bank cards, 13 HDDs, an electronic wallet, a DVR, and various documents during the searches.
The arrests were conducted at the request of United States law enforcement.
“Authorities in the United States of America has determined that this group consists of five or more persons located in Romania, who acted in a coordinated manner to administer those sites and to launder money obtained as a result of instigating crimes.”
Bratva Mafia is a new and unimproved version of Besa Mafia.
Representatives of Homeland Security Investigations and the US Embassy in Bucharest were present for the activities. According to the announcement, the suspects allegedly scammed would-be customers out of 500,000 euros ($543,842).
“Yura,” the fraudster behind dozens of contract-killing sites, including Besa Mafia, Costa Nostra, and Crimebay, likely lives in Romania. Chris Monteiro, the “vigilante hacker” who has been hacking darkweb murder-for-hire sites since at least 2016, linked Yura to an IP address in Romania. Santosh Sharma, a freelancer who once did SEO work for Yura, said, “[Yura] was based in Romania.”
Bratva Mafia is a new and unimproved version of Besa Mafia.
It seems probable that police raided people with an alleged connection to Yura’s sites and possibly Yura himself. However, the UK’s National Crime Agency and Bulgarian police seized Crime Bay in May 2017. Monteiro stopped hearing from Yura and assumed the police had arrested him. But Yura returned in December 2017 and later launched Cosa Nostra. So, who knows.
Monteiro believes Yura earned $6,539,800 vs. the estimated $543,842 listed in the press release. Seems like a significant discrepancy.
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Comments (6)
donkeysquad2022-04-09b2572170
ayo i gon call up my boy on besa mafia an put a hit out on deez bitch niggas
jegdegf2022-04-090b862be0
I am shocked! they are arrested! why? Because they scammed some assholes? give them a medals instead!
sherlock2022-04-1097122fa0
Looks like Yura returned with LE blessing this time to launch Cosa Nostra so he can skate on previous charges. Hmmm, i wonder what that sort of turncoat snitch setting up a market for a second time sounds like in todays non-hitman darknet market place. ahem alphabay.
Jjz132022-04-10c2dbe350
For real the first time I’ve heard of people running these sites arrested. Before it was all good as long as they snitch. Weird.
Billy Kimber2022-04-119807beb0
Thomas Shelby should’ve used Besa Mafia to get rid of Mosley. Why the fuck wouldn’t Arthur Shelby bring me on the hit to kill that cocksucking IRA cunt??????? And what the fuck happened with Stagg???????? SOMEONE FUCKING TELL MEEEEEE
Merica2022-04-08ed45a180
More like, how dare they run a hitman site, make money, help us arrest would be criminals, and not pay us our fair share of the money you scammed these fools with.