{"id":127061,"date":"2020-02-18T13:47:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T13:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2020\/02\/18\/249154\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:40:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:40:25","slug":"around-amd-35-million-stolen-from-atms-by-a-group-of-yerevan-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2020\/02\/18\/127061\/","title":{"rendered":"Around AMD 35 million stolen from ATMs by a group of Yerevan residents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, February 18. \/ARKA\/. <\/strong>The Investigative Committee of Armenia reported today about the completion of the investigation that has been launched in August 2018 into the theft of money from an ATM in Yerevan&#8217;s Kievyan Street.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investigators identified two members of the criminal group &#8211; they are friends, Yerevan residents, 34, and 41. Computer tricks have been used for committing this theft &#8211; viruses have been sent to the bank&#8217;s computer system. As a result, AMD 34.8 million (more than USD 72,600) have been stolen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cases of thefts from the city&#8217;s other ATMs, the thefts and attempted thefts from apartments committed by members of the same group have been affiliated to this case later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same 41-year-old man, in complicity with another man, whose identity is still unknown, has broken the lock of an apartment in Yerevan&#8217;s Nor Nork district and steal AMD 2.4 million (around USD 5,000) and USD 120 as well as a watch and jewelry of the total value of AMD 700,000 (around USD 1,460). The total damage is estimated at about AMD 3.16 million (over USD 6,500). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their another home burglary attempt in Komitas Avenue has failed &#8211; they penetrated into the apartment, but found nothing.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The evidence obtained gave grounds for changing the 41-year-old man with a theft, an attempted theft and organization of burglary with computer devise application and his 34-year-old friend with a theft committed with the use of a computer devise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The criminal case against them is already sent to court. The investigation is still under way for identifying other participants of the criminal scheme.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suspects or defendants are considered innocent until their guilt is proven. ($1 &#8211; AMD 479.05). -0&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Investigative Committee of Armenia reported today about the completion of the investigation that has been launched in August 2018 into the theft of money from an ATM in Yerevan&#8217;s Kievyan Street<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[14449,13165,12214,12688],"class_list":{"0":"post-127061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-banks-en-en","8":"category-news","9":"tag-atms","10":"tag-theft","11":"tag-yerevan","12":"tag-armenia-analyst-inflation"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}