14 DAY TRIAL // Four of the twelve men arrested for planning a cyber heist on a Santander branch in London have been charged with conspiracy to steal.
The charged suspects are Lanre Mullins-Abudu, 25, Dean Outram, 34, Akash Vaghela, 27, and Asad Ali Qureshi, 35, the Mirror reports. The other eight have been released on bail.
Police have searched several addresses and seized a number of computers. The devices will undergo forensic analysis.
Scotland Yard representatives said this was a sophisticated plot, one of the most significant cases of this kind so far.
Santander representatives are confident that none of their employees are involved in the attack. Instead, one of the crooks posed as a maintenance engineer to install the KVM switch that allowed them to take over the financial institution’s computers.
The bank says the plot failed and that “no money was ever at risk.”