The Prosecutor of Cagliari considered them the aware, well-paid accomplices of a Sardinian-Hungarian band of hackers led by a Russian and Francesco Baingio Douglas Fadda from Sassari, recently sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his partner.
According to the district prosecutor, 22 people (entrepreneurs, restaurateurs and merchants from Olbia, Alghero, Porto Cervo and Arzachena) favored the international IT "sting" with about 3,000 transactions that emptied the accounts of unsuspecting customers of companies such as American Express, Western Union and Moneygram. Today the Court of Tempio declared everything prescribed.
The 22 suspects had ended up inside Operation Carder of the Carabinieri of Olbia, because traces of the swipes left by the credit cards cloned by the gang led by Fadda remained in the pos of their activities. In some well-known places in Olbia, according to the Carabinieri, the use of the POS took place in the middle of the night.
According to the military, the entrepreneurs and traders, by providing the Pos, had a direct advantage, part of the money withdrawn from the accounts of the victims of computer fraud went to them. Today the investigating judge accepted the requests of the defense (Fabio Varone and Jacopo Merlini) declaring all the crimes extinguished