Arrest warrant out for a Russian for stealing from GSB’s ATMs

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Arrest warrant out for a Russian for stealing from GSB’s ATMs

 

 

BANGKOK: -- A Russian who has already left Thailand is wanted by the Thai police for allegedly stealing about 12 million baht in cash from the ATMs of the Government Savings Bank in Bangkok and Phuket during July-August.

 

Pol Gen Panya Mamen, a senior advisor of the Royal Thai Police Office, said on Wednesday that the Criminal Court had issued a warrant for the arrest of the Russian suspect, identified as Rustam Sambasov, 29.

 

He said that the suspect came into Thailand on July 14 and had since stolen 12 million baht from the GSB’s ATMs by infecting the machines with Malware virus. However, the suspect has left Thailand on August 1, he added.

 

Pol Gen Panya further said that the police would ask the court for arrest warrants to be issued for three more foreigners who had stolen 4.5 milllion baht from bank’s ATMs during March 13-17 using similar trick.

 

He suspected that some Thais might be involved with the gang of foreign skimmers by giving them rides to various targets where ATMs are located.

 

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/arrest-warrant-russian-stealing-gsbs-atms/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2016-08-31

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TRANSNATIONAL CRIME

Police turn to Interpol to hunt down Russian linked to Bt12m heist

The Nation 

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Police are seeking help from Interpol to hunt down a Russian suspect who is believed to have conspired with others to steal Bt12 million from 18 Government Savings Bank ATMs in Bangkok and Phuket, chief investigator Pol General Panya Mamen said yesterday.

 

Russian national Rustam Shambasov, 29, entered Thailand on July 14 and was captured on surveillance camera while allegedly stealing the money that month. He allegedly left the country on August 1, Panya said. 

An arrest warrant for Shambasov was issued by Phuket Court over charges of forgery, fraud and theft using fake electronic cards. The statute of limitations for the warrants is 15 years, Panya said. 

Police is also gathering evidence to issue an arrest warrant for one of another two foreigners, he said. 

Panya added that Shambasov and the two others were allegedly linked to the Bt12-million heist as well as the hacking of GSB ATMs in Phang-Nga province in March for another Bt4.5 million. 

Investigation has not found any state officials, bank staff or members of a Phuket car rental company involved, he added. 

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Police-turn-to-Interpol-to-hunt-down-Russian-linke-30294218.html

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2016-09-01

[OOLEEBER]

I didn't realise how utterly crap those cameras at immigration are. TIT.

[BlindMagician]

News flash....police get a brew on, so they can then work really hard for 7 minutes and find that form that needs filling in, to request the new paperclips from stores, that are needed to attach some confusing papers together for some other reason they don't really know or care about.

[hobobo]

49 minutes ago, BlindMagician said:

News flash....police get a brew on, so they can then work really hard for 7 minutes and find that form that needs filling in, to request the new paperclips from stores, that are needed to attach some confusing papers together for some other reason they don't really know or care about.

They don't use paper clips here, at least not the Immigration. They prefer staplers; just look at your passport, especially the last page!

[NextStationBangkok]

 

Put sanctions against any Russians coming with an ATM card, period.

[Popenerrow]

The two pictures looks like two different people

[BlindMagician]

34 minutes ago, hobobo said:

They don't use paper clips here, at least not the Immigration. They prefer staplers; just look at your passport, especially the last page!

Mind numbing

[dieseldave1951]

7 minutes ago, Popenerrow said:

The two pictures looks like two different people

100% right can't pin this on the Burmese not intelligent enough, that would look foolish 

RTP fishing for another scapegoat 

 

[williamgeorgeallen]

38 minutes ago, Popenerrow said:

The two pictures looks like two different people

yea. first one looks alot like leonardo dicaprio and the other one dosent. i would not be surprised if the cops have no idea but need to make it look like they do.

[swanny321]

  Fools rush in...

[GAZZPA]

Those 2 pictures are for sure completely different men. Different shape faces, different features.

 

Obviously very organised criminals with sophisticated techniques, will very likely be hopping from country to country doing this. Managed to get away with 350,000 usd from cash machines over the 2 week period. Thats a lot of withdrawals to make, surely they have better pictures from all the machines they must have visited?

 

 

[swanny321]

  They all look the same to me!

[chilli42]

12 million Baht?  One can only imagine the resources that Interpol will be putting behind this.  Comparatively, it's petty theft.

I do wonder why the theft was such an overdue discovery by the bank.  Certainly made capture almost impossible for the police.  This was one smart crook.

[sahibji]

1 hour ago, NextStationBangkok said:

 

Put sanctions against any Russians coming with an ATM card, period.

ha ha. ha.

[sahibji]

20 minutes ago, swanny321 said:

  They all look the same to me!

that is the perception people have of other races.

[mesterm]

They taught a very good lesson to the banks here.

[mike324]

39 minutes ago, GAZZPA said:

Those 2 pictures are for sure completely different men. Different shape faces, different features.

 

Obviously very organised criminals with sophisticated techniques, will very likely be hopping from country to country doing this. Managed to get away with 350,000 usd from cash machines over the 2 week period. Thats a lot of withdrawals to make, surely they have better pictures from all the machines they must have visited?

 

 

 

Back in May, the thieves stole $12 million from atms in Japan within 3 hours! Last month or so they stole $3 million from ATMs in Taiwan. They don't need to press anything actually, they just wait for ATM to spit out the cash on command. Pretty sophisticated network.

[theguyfromanotherforum]

Was the picture taken inside USS Enterprise?

Edited September 1, 2016 by theguyfromanotherforum

[AleksM]

He is citizen of Russia but he isn't Russian national.

[cyberfarang]

2 hours ago, NextStationBangkok said:

 

Put sanctions against any Russians coming with an ATM card, period.

There is more to it than that. These are highly organised gangs of international criminals, probably consisting of many nationalities.

 

Now it`s up to the banks to install high tech security devices on their ATMs because obviously the ATM systems already in operation are no longer up to the job. But of course this will cost money and have no doubts that it will be us, the customers, who will pay for it.

[dageurreotype]

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The statute of limitations for the warrants is 15 years, Panya said. 

 

Yeah. There's a reason for it being as long as 15 years. They're hoping you will have forgotten about it/given up by then as they've no intention of enforcing it. Having said that, I did get a reply from the CoP telling me they were looking into my complaint. A year ago.

[LUSHGOAT]

3 hours ago, Popenerrow said:

The two pictures looks like two different people

You are dead right one is Russian the other is Thai thats what I think anyway

[dageurreotype]

43 minutes ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

 

It gives the Thai criminals with money a chance to run away and hide and come back like nothing had ever happened. 

 

See: Red Bull heir currently in Singapore and a very similar bank embezzlement case of Chuan Leekpai's (former Democrat Party leader and Abhisit's mentor) brother. 

From Wikipedia:
In 1987, when Chuan was Parliament Speaker, his younger brother Raluek Leekpai (ระลึก หลีกภัย) was charged with embezzling 231.8 million THB (approx. 9 million USD in 1987) from Thai Farmers Bank. Raluek had been an executive at TFB. Responding to accusations in Parliament, Chuan publicly defended the innocence of his brother. Raluek fled the country, and only returned to Thailand in 2004 after the statute of limitations expired on his crime and he couldn't be prosecuted. He had been on the run as a fugitive in Taiwan. Raluek has said he might enter politics in order to restore his reputation, although he said he wanted to live a quiet life in his Trang hometown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuan_Leekpai#Corruption

 

I'm aware of that but foreign criminals (as in my case)  simply go on about their daily business. Being farang they're not high profile or any profile come to that, so no one gives a shit. The 'international criminal' pick ups paraded for the press have usually been dobbed in by their home countries.

[chrisinth]

I'm just surprised they didn't find out the identities through DNA sampling.

 

That's what they apparently rely on for most of their ID'ing here....................................

[elgordo38]

Must be a raiding party sent out by the Red Bull heir. He was running low on funds. 

[elgordo38]

Message from BIB to Russian criminals. Please come back to Thailand to face the music. 

[Nemesis7]

Oh those Russians....

One question so it took 14 days for the bank and authority to realize funds were stolen from them.???!!!

[BuckBee]

Lol, only thing criminal here is rtp statements & those 2 photos .

I would be amazed guys who done this would of used real passport for car hire ! am surprised no cap or glasses at atm though :-/ For effort involved I would of wanted pull lot more than 12Million, got exchange that cash too somewhere ! Highly likely of thai involvement at some level such as currency exchange perhaps !

[BuckBee]

Lol, only thing criminal here is rtp statements & those 2 photos .

I would be amazed guys who done this would of used real passport for car hire ! am surprised no cap or glasses at atm though :-/ For effort involved I would of wanted pull lot more than 12Million, got exchange that cash too somewhere ! Highly likely of thai involvement at some level such as currency exchange perhaps !