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Post by account_disabled on Mar 11, 2024 21:45:15 GMT -8
A man must serve a sentence of two years and eleven months for hacking into Caixa Econômica Federal account holders' accounts online. The loss caused by the fraudulent transfer of amounts exceeded R$, The decision was made by the st Specialized Panel of the Federal Regional Court of the nd Region, which also sentenced him to pay a fine of R$, There is an appeal. According to the complaint from the Federal Public Ministry, the hacker transferred the victims' money to the accounts of friends and relatives and withdrew it using a magnetic card. He had been convicted in the first instance by the Federal Austria Phone Numbers List Court of Nova Friburgo (RJ) for the crime of qualified theft through fraud on an ongoing basis. On appeal, the accused claimed innocence. He asked that, at least, the sentence be reduced if the conviction is upheld. But for the rapporteur of the case at TRF-, federal judge Abel Gomes, the evidence leaves no doubt as to the fact that he committed the crime defined in article of the Penal Code (Qualified theft through fraud), “since the element 'fraud' is considered as an executive and qualifying means of the crime, since cunning or insidious means were used to circumvent the surveillance of the injured parties”. For the rapporteur, the increase in the penalty slightly above the legal minimum is justified by the “circumstances of the crime, committed via the internet, making it very difficult to track the fraud perpetrated and always leading to greater care with the security of operations carried out online”. With information from the Press Office of the Federal Regional Court of the nd Region.
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