http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/bulgarian-shadowcrew-arrest/
By Kim Zetter
Threat Level
Wired.com
07.01.13
Nine years after the Shadowcrew carding forum was shuttered in a Secret
Service sting operation, a Bulgarian accused of carding activities has
been brought to the U.S. to face charges after nearly a decade on the lam.
Aleksi Kolarov, 30, was charged in 2004 in connection with an identity
theft ring accused of trafficking in more than a million stolen bank card
numbers. He was arrested in Paraguay in 2011 and has been held there ever
since.
He arrived in the U.S. only on Friday, after being extradited, to face
criminal charges in Newark, New Jersey. When nabbed in a hotel in
Asuncion, he had hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash on him in
multiple currencies, counterfeit bank cards and equipment for encoding
account details on the magnetic stripe of the cards, authorities say.
Kolarov has been charged with one count each of conspiracy, transferring
false identification documents and offering access devices without
authorization.
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