Computer specialist held in cyber-crime crackdown
PHILPOTT Martin, the 26-year-old computer specialist and computer programmer who was arrested on the weekend following a two-year cyber-crime investigation, will today appear before the Half-Way-Tree Resident's Magistrate Court.
Martin, who resides in Kingston 8, was held at his home on Saturday by detectives from the Organised Crime Investigation Division (OCID), headed by Superintendent Fitz Bailey.
Martin is facing three counts of simple larceny and one count of conspiracy to defraud.
In the meantime, the police said another man has remained in custody for further questioning and that three additional arrests were made yesterday in Kingston.
"For the past two years the Organised Crime Investigation Division (OCID) has been looking into complaints from businesses and individuals, whose computer networks were compromised through network intrusion, data interception, data and identity theft," the police said in a statement yesterday.
Said the police: "The allegations also involve the transfer of funds electronically from the accounts of both local and overseas institutions totalling million of dollars to the Cayman Islands and USA; among the institutions that were compromised is one of our own major telecommunication providers."
The police said J$600,000, believed to be the proceeds of recent crimes, was seized during the operation on Saturday.
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