A Russian hacker, who obtained Portuguese citizenship and lived in Vila Nova de Gaia for several years, sold credit card details to more than a thousand people, mostly citizens of the country. Newspaper.
Sergei Gusev, 43, was part of an international group and became the subject of a joint investigation by the joint venture and the FBI. The complaint from the aforementioned US security forces identified a forum where the suspect disposed of the stolen data, which would later be used for fraud.
During a home search conducted in May, PJ caught a hacker with an open file on a computer with thousands of transactions related to the platform. Against all odds, during the forensic examination, the suspect denied knowing about them.
Sergei Gusev is in jail. The judge cited the risk of flight and disruption of the investigation to justify the application of the coercive measure.