Man Gets 6 Years in Prison for Laundering $2.5 Million for Carders Threat Level Wired.com: "Cesar Carranza, 38, also known as “uBuyWeRush,” ran a legitimate business selling liquidation and overstock merchandise online and from three California stores.
But, according to an indictment (.pdf), he also sold MSR-206’s to carders to encode stolen bank card data onto blank cards, and he served as a conduit to transmit stolen money between mules and carders.
He worked with many of the top carders in the criminal underground between 2003 and 2006, including Maksim “Maksik” Yastremskiy, a Ukrainian carder who allegedly worked with TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez and was considered by authorities to be one of the top sellers of stolen card data on the internet.
In 2003 and 2004, Carranza became an approved and trusted vendor on online criminal forums such as CarderPlanet and Shadowcrew, advertising his goods and services and dispensing advice on the best tools to use for various criminal endeavors.
According to court records, he admitted in messages he posted to the forums that he himself had done carding between 1990 and 1998, but retired to become a vendor for other carders.
“I decided to supply all you guys making the real big bucks,” he allegedly wrote. “So if you need me I sell Card Printers, Card Embossers, Tippers, Encoders, Small Readers and more.”"

former analyst at Evolution Securities Ltd., a London-based investment bank, denied claims that he passed inside information to a friend who went on to make at least 75,000 pounds ($123,000) from spread bets.
Robin Chhabra, 38, said yesterday he wasn’t in possession of inside information on E-Bookers Plc and Eidos Plc, two companies for which Evolution was the corporate broker, when he called his friend Sameer Patel in 2004. Even if he was, Chhabra said, he wouldn’t have divulged the information. The men are fighting a market-abuse case filed by the Financial Services Authority, which is seeking to ban and fine them.
The FSA’s case “makes no sense to me,” Chhabra told Guy Philipps, the FSA’s attorney, in cross-examination at a London tribunal yesterday. “Why would I distribute RINGA repeatedly and leave myself exposed?” said Chhabra, referring to relevant information not generally available, or inside information.The FSA is trying to stamp out insider trading after criticism from lawmakers, and it has pledged to bring more criminal insider-dealing cases. The FSA’s second criminal prosecution of the crime is being heard by a jury this week. Suspicious trades occurred before 29.3 percent of announcements last year, up from 28.7 percent in 2007, according to FSA data. Chhabra, who left Evolution in 2006 to become a director at Inspired Gaming Group Plc, and Patel had been close friends since attending the London School of Economics and Political Science together. They were best men at each other’s wedding, Chhabra told the tribunal yesterday. They spoke daily, he said.

Patel was an analyst at General Motors Asset Management and a “prolific” spread-better, using IG Index Ltd., according to the FSA. In the period under investigation, he made 55 spread bets with IG, 26 of which were on clients of Evolution, Jason Mansell, Chhabra’s attorney, told the tribunal two days ago.