JHA WASHINGTON: A Canadian man was sentenced Wednesday to 140 months in federal prison for conspiring to steal tens of millions of dollars worth of stolen money in various wire and bank fraud schemes, largely online by North Korean cybercriminals. Involves banking theft and a bank headquarters. India. Galeb Aloumari, 36, of Mississauga, Ontario, a dual Canadian and US citizen, was sentenced after pleading guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit money laundering, one of which was filed in Los Angeles. .
The Justice Department said that as part of his sentencing covering both cases, Alaumari was ordered to pay more than US$30 million in compensation to the victims. According to court documents, Alamri and his co-conspirators used commercial email settlement schemes, ATM cash-out and bank cyber theft to steal money from victims and then through bank accounts and digital currency.
In the Los Angeles case, Alumery recruited and organized individuals to retrieve stolen cash from ATMs; He provided bank accounts that had received money from bank cyber thieves and fraudulent schemes. Federal prosecutors alleged that once the erroneously obtained funds were in accounts controlled by him, Alumari further facilitated the funds by wire transfers, cash withdrawals and exchanging funds for cryptocurrency. “These funds include North Korean criminals, including a 2019 cyber theft of a Maltese bank and a 2018 ATM cash-out theft from BankIslami in Pakistan. Other victims of Alumri’s crimes include a bank headquartered in India, as well as companies in the US and UK, individuals in the US and a professional soccer club in the United Kingdom,” the Justice Department said.
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