Legal proceedings Nordea’s ex-employee and accomplice took more than 670,000 euros from the customer’s account – Court of Appeal tightened convictions

The Court of Appeal of Vaasa described the actions as planned and exceptionally unscrupulous.

Vaasan The Court of Appeal has intensified convictions in a criminal case against Nordea and its customers. The increase in the penalty is mainly due to the fact that the Court of Appeal considered some fraudulent means of payment to be aggravated after the district court considered them to be basic.

The series of crimes began in the summer of 2019, when Nordea’s then employee broke into the bank’s customer management system. The system gave the authors access to bank accounts and transferred more than EUR 670,000 from one customer to accounts under their own control.

The 29-year-old was sentenced to the hardest sentence, three years and ten months in prison Sebastian Joni Ilari Karikko. The increase came in eight months. Karikko was convicted of, among other things, three serious payment instrument frauds, gross data breaches, two identity thefts and several other crimes.

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Court of Appeal described Kariko’s crimes as exceptionally planned and unscrupulous. Among other things, Karikko tried to stage two of his colleagues at Nordea.

According to the law, the procedure was apparently intended to undermine confidence in both Nordea and the banking system in general.

“The act has thus sought more than immediate financial gain. The above factors have the effect of increasing the sentence to be condemned. ‘

Ramin Tarkan Björkin, 29, sentenced to four months. He was now sentenced to two years and four months in prison for two grave means of payment fraud and two burglaries.

The increase in the penalty was justified, inter alia, by the fact that Björk played a key role in the planning and implementation of money laundering, which was essential for the success of the act.

Gentlemen had, among other things, created and activated a new PIN application for the bank’s customer to access the account. In order for the keypad applications to be activated successfully, the authors exchanged their own phone numbers for customer information instead of customer numbers.

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The main employee, Karikko, has worked at Nordea’s Vaasa office as a service advisor since 2018. The service advisors have access to the customer management system and customer information.

Among other things, Karikko used the keystroke acquired to make the passwords of the bank’s employees. He also stole a computer from a bank employee.

The charges of the third accused were dismissed, just like in the Ostrobothnian District Court.

Read more: Former Nordea employee and accomplice who confiscated customer funds sentenced to prison

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