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Проверяват мъж с над 1000 СИМ-карти, ползвани в престъпления

Установено е, че с три от предплатените карти, регистрирани на неговото име, са извършени два обира и едно отвличане

Полицията в Пазарджик проверява случай с купени над 1000 предплатени СИМ-карти на името на 46-годишния Събко Мулешков от Панагюрище, съобщи директорът на Районното управление комисар Стоян Стоянов.

Установено е, че с три от картите са извършени два обира и едно отвличане.

СИМ-картите, купени от мъжа, се разпространяват от други лица в интернет с условието, че името на новия купувач няма да фигурира в регистрите на мобилните оператори.

Засега не е потвърдено дали човекът от Панагюрище е дал доброволно личните си данни, продавайки самоличността си, или става въпрос за друго престъпление и схема на черен пазар с предплатени мобилни карти.

Цената на една анонимна СИМ-карта варира между 10 и 50 лева.

Според комисар Стоянов със закупените бройки не е извършвано престъпление на територията на област Пазарджик.

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46-годишният Събко Мулешков обаче е криминално проявен и е с присъда за измами.

Проверката се извършва на територията на няколко полицейски управления в страната. До нея доведе разследване на Би Ти Ви, показано в "Тази сутрин".

Чрез имейл екипът на телевизията се свързал с човек, предлагащ анонимни СИМ-карти онлайн.

Тъй като той продава неограничен брой номера и на трите оператора, вкл. номер по избор, според Би Ти Ви офертата може да идва само от човек с достъп до системите за регистрация на самите мобилни оператори.

Пратката - за 50 лв., поръчана по електронната поща на измислено име, е била получена от екипа чрез куриер от Варна. Оказало се, че купеният номер е регистриран на името на мъжа от Панагюрище.

Дилърът, регистрирал незаконните карти на Събко, признава, че на името на някои хора има по десетки хиляди карти.

Търсенето на анонимни СИМ-карти е голямо и много хора се възползват от нишата, регистрират ги на свое име и ги препродават. В София например бизнесът вървял на Женския пазар, в Пловдив - при ромите в Столипиново, и т.н.

Би Ти Ви говори и с един от потърпевшите - журналистът от радио "Фреш" Борислав Борисов, на чието име без негово знание са били регистрирани над 220 карти и е била натрупана 1300 лева сметка.

В началото на 2010 г. Комисията за регулиране на съобщенията въведе нов правилник за задължителна регистрация на предплатените СИМ-карти. Тя бе поискана след ред отвличания и изнудвания, извършени с използването на анонимни карти.
Въвеждането на ограничения в количеството предплатени карти, които могат да се продават от мобилните оператори на едно лице, би довело до ограничаване свободата на избор на клиента, посочват от "М-Тел" по повод множеството запитвания по въпроса.

По същата логика това би означавало човек да не може да отиде в магазин за черна техника, например, и да си купи два телевизора от една и съща марка, правят сравнение от оператора.

Ако подобни ограничения бъдат въведени чрез законодателни промени обаче, телекомът ще се съобрази с тях.

Проблемът може да бъде решен само със законодателни промени, се посочва в съобщение на мобилния оператор "Виваком".

Съгласно сега действащото законодателство, компанията няма право да налага лимит върху възможността един човек да притежава на свое име неограничен брой предплатени SIM-карти, но изпраща писма и предупреждава клиентите си във всеки случай, при който възникне съмнение за измама.

Към момента във "Виваком" има около 800 лица, на чието име са регистрирани над 10 такива карти, около 45 души са с над 50 номера, а тези, които притежават над 100, са 35.

Телекомът ще подкрепи всяка мярка от страна на държавата, която ще доведе до намаляване на възможността за извършване на незаконни действия с нейни карти и за уронване на името и достойнството на нейни клиенти, се казва в съобщението.

Austria: Stolen CO2 Certificates Found In Sweden, Liechtenstein

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The Austrian carbon emissions certificates registry, ECRA, said Friday that certificates stolen Jan. 10 during a hackers attack have been located and accounts frozen in Sweden andLiechtenstein .

ECRA said 488,141 certificates, with a value of around EUR7 million, were transferred from an Austrian reserve account using login information obtained by data fishing emails, and took place under cover of a Denial of Service, or DoS, attack that lamed ECRA's data systems while the perpetrators were operating.

The certificates, which were traceable through identification codes, were located shortly after in the Swedish and Liechtenstein accounts, which were immediately frozen. No private or company certificates accounts at ECRA were compromised during the attack, ECRA said.

Earlier this week the European Union froze trade in carbon certificates, after around 1.3 million emission credits were stolen in the Czech Republic .

The Austrian spot trade will be closed until at least Jan. 26, ECRA said.

Another Problem with Carbon Credits: They Get Stolen

Rachel Cernansky
Business / Corporate Responsibility
February 1, 2011

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At least $40 million worth of carbon credits have been stolen in recent weeks from various registries across Europe, in what some are calling a growing black market for carbon credits.The Wall Street Journal explains that there are efforts to get the credits returned, but the task is much easier in some cases than others:

The imminent retrieval of 488,141 emissions certificates from Liechtenstein and Sweden comes as leading energy traders Monday urged registries to reopen quickly following a series of thefts under the EU's Emissions Trading System that have led the EU to shut the spot market until security is improved...

The stolen Austrian certificates come from the registry's reserve account and aren't associated with a particular company. In other cases, leading industrial companies, including Czech-based power company CEZ AS and Holcim Ltd. have reported the theft of certificates valued at millions of euros...

In Germany, national emissions registry officials say CO2 allowances become property of account holders once the certificates are registered on their accounts, provided the buyer acted in good faith. That means authorities might not be able to recovery stolen certificates in Germany.

The credits swiped from the Czech company, Scientific American reports, would allow a company to pollute up to half a million tons of carbon emissions—a small amount in the grand scheme of industrial emissions, but the real concern lies in the fact that it's even possible. It lends even more skepticism to an already imperfect plan for reigning in emissions.

"The event put the spotlight on an emerging black market for the right to pollute the planet," Scientific American wrote, and then referenced Point Carbon for explaining how the seemingly-solvable crime is not so: "the thief swiftly transferred the stolen permits to a registry in Poland, then to others in Estonia and Lichtenstein, before they disappeared altogether. Reuters reported that other unnamed carbon account holders were also raided."

The Journal quotes a spokesman for the Vienna State Prosecutor's office, speaking about the theft in Austria: "We haven't yet found out who are behind the crime. They have covered their tracks very well."

Yet implementing better regulation of the emissions market in Europe, which has the world's largest carbon trading scheme, doesn't seem to be a priority. But if carbon trading is to be given any legitimacy as a path to reducing emissions, it has to stop, for one thing, being vulnerable to black market practices.

Austria Says It Has Got Back 237,100 Frozen CO2 Certificates From Sweden

By Boris Groendahl and Ewa Krukowska - Apr 7, 2011 12:54 PM GMT+0300

Austria said it got back carbon permits illegally transferred toSweden in a hacking attack on the European Union emissions-trading system in January.

Thieves transferred more than 2 million allowances valued at around 34 million euros ($49 million) at today’s prices from accounts in carbon registries in Austria, the Czech Republic and Greece earlier this year. The Austrian Emissions Certificate Registry, which earlier said 488,141 permits missing from its accounts were found in Sweden and Liechtenstein, announced today that 237,100 allowances were returned from a Swedish account.

“The transfer was executed by a Swedish court order, which not only imposed the legal confiscation, but also their return to Austria,” the registry said in a statement from Vienna today. “The certificates frozen in Liechtenstein will probably be returned to Austria in the next few days.”

The cyber-attacks roiled the European carbon market, the world’s biggest, and prompted the EU to shut all registries in the bloc’s emissions-trading system. The closure drove spot markets to a halt for 15 days before the first registries, which track transactions and ownership of permits, were allowed to reopen. Each permit gives its holder the right to emit one metric ton of carbon dioxide.

EU nations are working with Europol and other institutions to recover the stolen permits, Jos Delbeke, director general for climate at the European Commission, said on March 22. Thecommission supervises the emissions trading system, known as the ETS and covering 27 EU nations as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic, which lost around 1.3 million permits in the hacking attacks, said last month it will replace the allowances stolen from the accounts of the Brno-based trader Blackstone Global Ventures and power company CEZ AS. (CEZ)

Even though the allowances stolen by hackers in January account for only 0.01 percent of the EU annual cap, the attacks hurt the reputation of the ETS and sparked criticism from some analysts that the supervision of the system is not adequate. The theft followed instances of “carousel fraud” involving value- added tax collection and password “phishing” last year.

EU permits for delivery in December fell 0.2 percent to 17.12 euros as of 8:35 a.m. on the ICE Futures Europe exchange in London. They have gained 20 percent so far this year.

Better Security

The commission has already demanded that national registries implement additional identification checks and prove they meet minimum security requirements and is now working on regulatory changes that may be presented as soon as this month.

The proposals to modify the rules for registries will probably include a delay in delivery of spot permits, Yvon Slingenberg, head of the emissions unit at the commission, said last month. The spot carbon market accounts for 10 percent to 15 percent of emissions trading in the EU, according to the commission estimates.

The delay and most of other changes to be proposed will be applicable for a single registry, which will replace national emissions centers in the next phase of the EU program starting in 2013. Some measures may also become mandatory in the current trading period, which began in 2008, Slingenberg said.

The EU is also working on improved oversight measures for spot carbon trading. While the futures market is already subject to the EU regulation on financial markets, options on the table for spot emissions trading include extending this regulation and creating a tailor-made regime.

Holcim Reports $19 Million in CO2 Allowances Stolen

Earlier this week, Holcim Romania announced that on November 16, 2010 its CO2 accounts held within the Romanian National Registry for Greenhouse Gases were illegally accessed and that 1.6 million CO2 certificates, worth $19 million, were stolen.

One million CO2 allowances were transferred to an account in Liechtenstein. Another 600,000 CO2 allowances were transferred to a company in Italy, which has account registries in Italy and the UK. Some seem to have been further transferred to accounts in the Czech Republic, Great Britain and France.

Holcim Romania informed the Romanian Registry requesting blockage and recuperation of its CO2 allowances. Formal criminal investigations have been requested from Romanian law enforcement authorities. An international investigation has been initiated. EUAs have a unique identification number – the stolen ones are listed here.

Now, the EU Commission says that a computer virus (called Nimkey) is to blame.

Last week, Germany’s registry said it blocked transactions until Dec. 3, after reports that access data was stolen from users of other European emissions trading registries with the help of Nimkey, Bloomberg reports.

With EUAs closed system, tracking the EUAs through the registry systems may be relatively easy, but Holcim may not get the allowances back, Owen Lomas, a consultant at Allen & Overy LLP’s climate change group, says in a Bloomberg article. In English law, assuming they were treated as a type of property, the legal owner would usually get the allowances back, but in some countries, such as Germany, an “innocent buyer” may be entitled to keep the permits.

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