Investigative success against cyber criminals
tsf. As part of an internationally coordinated action, international criminal prosecutors have succeeded in taking action against a global group of cyber criminals who have operated with the “LockerGoga” and “Megacortex” malicious programs. Authorities from France, the Netherlands, Norway, Ukraine, the USA and Switzerland were involved in the action.
As part of this action, the Zurich public prosecutor’s office is conducting criminal proceedings against an accused person, as the cantonal police and the public prosecutor’s office announced on Friday morning. Cyber investigators from the cantonal police have intensively evaluated the data carriers seized from this person over the past few months. Numerous “private keys” are revealed. Damaged companies and institutions could use these keys to restore the data previously encrypted with the “LockerGoga” or “MegaCortex” malware. In cooperation with Europol, the “No More Ransom” project and the company Bitdefender, a tool is now being made available that supports the victims in decrypting LockerGoga. This is under the website www.nomoreransom.org available. Victims who are affected by attacks with the malicious programs mentioned are urgently requested to file a criminal complaint if they have not already done so.
The cybercrime phenomenon “ransomware” refers to the encryption of data on IT networks. The victim is then asked to pay a ransom to restore the data. There has been an increase in this phenomenon worldwide for several years.
The suspected perpetrators are accused of being involved in ransomware attacks on over 1,800 people and institutions in 71 countries and of having caused an estimated total damage of several 100 million Swiss francs.
As part of the proceedings, the Zurich public prosecutor’s office took over criminal proceedings against an accused man from the Basel-Landschaft public prosecutor’s office. At the end of October 2021, he was arrested by the Basel-Landschaft law enforcement authorities in a joint action and in the presence of French investigators on suspicion of money laundering and data corruption. The accused is currently in custody in the canton of Zurich. As usual, the presumption of innocence applies to him until the final conclusion of the proceedings.
Parallel to the ongoing criminal proceedings of the public prosecutor’s office, the cyber investigators of the Zurich cantonal police have intensively evaluated the data carriers seized during a house search in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in recent months.
Several arrests after checks by the cantonal police in the Affoltern district
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Criminal police checks in the Knonau office on Tuesday afternoon led to several results, as reported by the cantonal police on Wednesday (September 14). A 37-year-old Croatian fled the impending check. His van collided with a car, the driver was slightly injured. The man was stopped a little later.
Police found about 150 grams of marijuana in the vehicle. The public prosecutor’s office then ordered house searches at the homes of the driver and his passenger, a 48-year-old Swiss man. Three kilograms of marijuana and weapons were seized. Both men were arrested.
In addition, the cantonal police caught a Spaniard who was driving a car despite having his driver’s license revoked, and a 31-year-old Romanian who had tried to fraudulently get money from passers-by in a shopping center using forged donation forms.
Police arrested a Brazilian woman with five kilograms of cocaine in her hand luggage at Zurich Airport
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The Zurich cantonal police arrested a woman at Zurich Airport on Tuesday (September 13) who was carrying around five kilograms of cocaine in her hand luggage. The 49-year-old traveled from São, Brazil Paulo to Zurich, as the police wrote in a communiqué on Wednesday. During the check, the suspicion arose that it could be a narcotics smuggler.
According to the canton police, further investigations revealed that the Brazilian woman was carrying textiles in her hand luggage that were soaked with around five kilograms of liquefied cocaine. The cocaine should have been washed out again by a later chemical process. The textiles seized have been taken to the Zurich Forensic Institute for precise identification. The woman was arrested.
FCZ fans attacked GC supporters in a train – police arrested six attackers
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The attack happened on August 20, 2022. After the soccer cup game between the Grasshoppers and FC Wettswil, ultras from FC Zurich boarded the train at Weihermatt station, pulled the emergency brake and attacked supporters of the city rivals. According to an eyewitness report in an online forum of GC fans, the attackers used “pepper spray, metal bars and batons”. Five people were slightly injured in the attack, and property damage amounted to tens of thousands of francs.
The Zurich public prosecutor’s office and the Zurich cantonal police have now announced in a joint statement that six FCZ Ultras were involved in the attack. The six Swiss between the ages of 18 and 26 were arrested last week.
They are accused of taking part in the riots after the game in Wettswil a. A. to have been involved in the Weihermatt train station, which belongs to the municipality of Urdorf. The public prosecutor’s office is now investigating criminal acts against life and limb, property damage, violence and threats against authorities and officials as well as other offenses against the accused.
The compulsory measures court has granted an application for pre-trial detention in five out of six cases. It ordered an alternative measure for the sixth suspect. The presumption of innocence applies to the young men until the final conclusion of the proceedings. Police and prosecutors are still looking for witnesses to the incident.
Fraudsters want to take 50,000 francs from a pensioner in Winterthur – and are convicted in the process
top. On Wednesday (September 7th), the Winterthur city police and the Zurich cantonal police arrested two suspected fraudsters in Seen. The two young men are said to have tried to deceive an elderly woman over the phone as fake police officers.
As the Winterthur city police wrote in a statement on Monday (September 12), the 72-year-old pensioner was not fooled and duped the scammers herself: she agreed with the stranger that she would go to the bank immediately to get the money asked to withdraw 50,000 francs. In truth, she informed the police. When the two men later tried to take the 50,000 francs from the pensioner’s mailbox, the police arrested them in flagrante delicto.
Patrol in Winterthur stops drunk cyclists and drivers
top. The patrol of the Winterthur city police stopped several drunk road users on Monday night (September 12th). At 9 p.m. Sunday evening, the patrol stopped a suspiciously moving car. According to the police, the 47-year-old driver was presumably drunk and had to hand in his driver’s license.
A few hours later, just before 2 a.m., two cyclists were noticed. The two men were believed to be drunk and on two stolen bikes. Proceedings have been initiated against all three people.
Canton police seized two kilograms of cocaine and tens of thousands of francs
lia. At the end of August 2022, the Zurich cantonal police arrested three suspected drug dealers and one buyer in the Dietikon, Dielsdorf and Horgen districts. In addition to more than two kilograms of cocaine, several tens of thousands of francs were seized. This was announced by the police on Monday (September 12) in a media release.
The origin of the arrest was the surveillance of a property in Unterengstringen. In addition to the arrests, several properties were also searched. The police seized more than two kilograms of cocaine, accessories for dealing in narcotics, several weapons and dangerous objects and tens of thousands of francs at various locations.
Four men between the ages of 29 and 45 from Switzerland, Italy, Austria and Albania were arrested and are now in custody.
47-year-old seriously injured with knife – suspected perpetrator arrested in Pfäffikon
lips A man was seriously injured with a knife in Pfäffikon early on Saturday morning. Shortly before four o’clock the report of an injured person was received, the Zurich cantonal police wrote in a communiqué on Sunday. The deployed emergency services met a 47-year-old man with stab wounds in an apartment. He had to be transported to the hospital in an ambulance.
The alleged perpetrator, a 43-year-old Pole, was arrested at the Pfäffikon train station without resistance. A case of attempted murder was opened against him. The exact course of events is still unclear. The investigations are being conducted by the Zurich Cantonal Police and the Public Prosecutor’s Office I of the Canton of Zurich.