Ministry of Internal AffairsMinistry of Internal AffairsGeneral Inspectorate of PoliceGeneral Inspectorate of Police

National Inspectorate of InvestigationsNational Inspectorate of Investigations

Centre for combating cyber CrimesCentre for combating cyber Crimes

OhridOhrid, 2013, 2013

Overview Overview of Topicsof Topics

1) The legal base National legislation

2) The structure and main objectives of the of the

electronic payment means bureau

3) Cooperation at local and international

4) Statistics

Legal baseNational legislation

The Constitution of the Republic of Moldova; The Criminal Code of the Republic of Moldova Nr. 985 of the 18th of April

2002; The Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Moldova Nr. 122 of the 14th of

March 2003; The law of the Republic of Moldova Nr. 320 of the 27th of December 2012

“about the activity of the police and the status of the policeman”; The law of the Republic of Moldova Nr. 59 of the 29th of March 2012 “about the

special investigations activity”; The law of the Republic of Moldova Nr. 20 of the 3rd of February 2009 “about

the prevention and combating cyber criminality”; The law of the Republic of Moldova Nr. 241 of the 15th of November 2007

“about the electronic communications”; The law of the Republic of Moldova Nr. 114 of the 18th of May 2012“about the

electronic payment means and electronic money”;

The Criminal Code

art. 237 (Production or putting into circulation of false cards or other pay checks)

art. 259 (Illegal access to computerized information) art. 260 (Illegal production, importation, marketing, or offering of technical

means or software products) art. 260/1 (Illegal interception of an information data transfer) art. 260/2 (Violation of the integrity of the information data contained in a

data system) art. 260/3 (Impact on data system operation) art. 260/4 (Illegal production, importation, marketing, or offering of

passwords, access codes, or similar data) art. 260/5 (Information data forgery) art. 260/6 (Information fraud)

The Center was founded on the 5th of March, 2013, in consequence of the reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Moldova, according to the Government Decision Nr. 986 from 24th of December, 2012.

CCCC - a division of the National Inspectorate of Investigations, of the General Inspectorate of Police, whose primary task is the prevention and combating cybercrimes, according to the powers, established by the legislation of the Republic Moldova.

Establishment

The Structure of the CCCC

Head

Deputy,Head of section

Investigation of information technology crimes section

Investigation of crimes in telecommunication area section 1 Head of section  

Electronic payment means bureau1 Main inspector3 Senior inspectors

Information technology security bureau1 Main inspector3 Senior inspectors

Monitoring and operational cooperation bureau1 Main inspector1 Senior inspector 

Financial crimes bureau 1 Main inspector3 Senior inspectors

Child protection bureau 1 Main inspector2 Senior inspectors

Section of informational technologies and investigation of crimes in informational area of the General Prosecutor’s Office4 Prosecutors 

Section of criminal prosecution of cyber crimes of the General directorate of criminal prosecution6 Officers of criminal investigation 

Section of informational, phonoscope and polygraph examination of the Technical-forensic centre and of judiciary expertize 8 Experets 

Totaly – 20 police officers

One of the priorities of the bureau is to identify crimes with the use of payment cards (CNP fraud & real carding);

The organization and conduct of investigations of informatics crimes in the field of electronic payment systems;

Administering the central database of the informatics crimes in the field of electronic payment systems;

The identification and study of the risks and vulnerabilities in the process of development in electronic payments system technology.

Main objectives of the Electronic payment means bureau

ELECTRONIC PAYMENT MEANS BUREAU

National Bank of Moldova

The Association of the Banks of Moldova

Special Communications Centreof the Government

Border Police Department

National cooperation

General Prosecutor’s office

Customs Service

Ministery of Informational Technology and Communications

National Agency for Regulation in Electronic Communications and

Informational Technology

Banks and bank data processing centers

State Tax Service of the Republic of Moldova

ELECTRONIC PAYMENT MEANS

BUREAU

“EC3” – European Cybercrime Centre

The „Polis” system of cooperation of the OSCE

UN office on drugs and crime

Department for combating cyber crimes and trafficking

in person of Ukraine

The Service for combating cyber crimes of Romania

ICPO „Interpol”

International cooperation

Fake Bank Cards The officers of the Electronic payment means bureau documented and on 28th of May 2013 made the arrest of a criminal group specialized in the manufacture and circulation of fake bank cards.Criminals were making frauds on the territory of the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine over several years, until the time they were arrested next to an ATM in Chisinau.

According to data provided by the banks of Moldova, only in 2013 that criminal group had put into circulation over 900 fake bank cards and have extracted about 1.5 million MDL (about 125 thousand dollars).

  2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013January 6 0 1 5 4 1February 2 0 1 8 6 2

March 23 0 5 3 1 2April 1 2 5 0 10 3May 15 3 16 1 3 1June 23 0 3 3 3 2July 24 3 4 2 1 2

August 0 2 2 2 4 1September 17 0 1 5 7 1

October 1 0 1 0 0 -November 28 4 5 3 3 -December 25 5 0 0 1 -

165 19 44 32 43 15

Criminal cases of production or putting into circulation of false cards

Center for Combating Cyber CrimesRepublic of Moldova

Chisinau,Bucuriei, 14 str.Tel.: +373 79 826 919

e-mail: ccci@mai.gov.md