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Exactly What Is Criminal in Cybercrimes?
Exactly What Is Criminal in Cybercrimes?
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Living in the age when formerly impossible things happen every day, we are facing a new problem. That is, the need to comprehend anew what exactly is a crime... 03.03.2026, Sputnik India
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And that’s exactly what is happening between Russia and India, among other such cases. Mr. Alexander Bastrykin, the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia (IC, that’s our Scotland Yard, so to say), tells us in his recent interview to Interfax agency, that Moscow and the New Delhi have decided to work out a memorandum of understanding of what we can and should do together to confront crime.IC’s counterpart is Directorate of Investigations, Ministry of Finance, Republic of India. The document that is going to be drafted is, simply speaking, about the so-called new crime, mostly committed in cyberspace or with the help of all these precious new technologies, that are supposed to be the best part of our brilliant new world. I’m not sure about the beauty of the new world coming, but even today one thing is a fact. Bigger and bigger share of crime is being committed with the help of all kind of online activities – and that, again, is a line from the mentioned interview with Mr. Bastrykin. Here we have something that calls for developing a whole set of new rules, laws and international protocols.If you look at that interview closer, you’ll see that Mr. Bastryking is talking, so far, about the need for consultations about consultations. First a series of meetings are deemed to be necessary, second, a memorandum is to be signed, stating that we both are on the same wavelength about the future concrete agreements between the two police structures. So, again, we both need to state clearly what kind of crime needs our cooperation.So far we are talking, among other things, about corruption and related money transfers across borders. The issue here is verification of the other side’s methods of tracking down suspicious payments, so as to decide if we are dealing with something criminal and agree on that definition of criminality. Technicalities are of secondary importance here, though these technicalities are real fun. Like, the Russian police is employing AI now to speed up the face recognition process. Previously, a live human being had to watch the whole of a surveillance video, while now a robot may pick up the face of a suspect in a matter of seconds.So, solving trans-border crimes may look easier now, and that will be so until the moment somebody says: hey, we don’t think it’s a crime at all. Or we are not very sure about it.These are the 21st century realities that gave me an idea to write a thriller on that matter. I’ve got plenty of ideas on the subject after my recent visit to Thailand, and then to Malaysia. And, yes, all these ideas revolve around the talk of the towns there, that is, what to do about the huge scam cities just across yet another border.It’s an easy case when the inmates there are simply stealing money from accounts across the world, using their proficiency in IT. The only problem is, then, what to do if the local authorities are giving shelter to such terrorists behind the LED displays. Not to mention the fact that the inhabitants of such cities are actually slaves, lured to the jungle by global slave-recruiting companies.But imagine something more complicated, as I’m doing now. I’m placing my plot in the near future, when an internationally-renowned IT corporation builds up yet another such city in the jungle, and the neighboring state is bombing it out to hell. Yes, that’s more or less what happened between Thailand and Cambodia, but that’s secondary.The problem is in what that corporation is doing, in that book of mine. It’s making software for medical spying devices that producers of coffee-making machines or toilet bowls are secretly putting in their wares. And then the corporation is linking these devices with national health services of certain countries, those willing to subscribe to that novelty.How it works in practice: your toilet bowl (sorry, folks) sends a signal to your telephone, saying it has detected dangerous things in your you know what, and has contacted you national health authorities, that already have made an appointment for you.What can go wrong, if our good doctors are saying that they save lives and protect their nations? A lot may go wrong, my book says, including government’s downfalls and international conflicts. The thing is, different nations have different ideas about what doctors are for, and what the governments can or cannot do to take care of its electorate. So, my imaginary IT-city in the jungle is normal for one group of nations, and is an abomination to other ones.There is a good word coined by, imagine that, the Chinese in one of their recent analytical features. The word is medicalized mentality of the Westerners, their thinking being different from other nation’s ideas of what doctors can or cannot do. The Chinese may be right this time, since it is clear that at least part of the Westerners live in constant fear of diseases and all such, the fear skillfully instigated by ideologues of total medical control over population. Needless to say, that control is about money of the medical lobby (and that’s not only the much-vilified Big Pharma), but it’s also about power as such.That global medical lobby was harboring huge plans of ruling not just nations, but the whole world, via the supranational structures like the World Health Organization. It’s interesting to watch the current throes of America, that has left the WHO, but is devising some alternative international body, a more expensive and cumbersome one.The basic idea of medical profession is that it’s about people you are asking for help, and trust them absolutely. While an idea of a doctor chasing you with a baseball bat to force you into obligatory health looks, to me, a sign of serious corruption of one the world’s most respected caste. And that is definitely a crime, waiting for international cooperation to tackle it.I describe, in my book, an international conference on that matter, where a Russian is delivering the above listed ideas, while an Indian delegate listens attentively and finally says: well, maybe that Russian has something interesting here, we need to think it over. I hope something similar will happen, one day, in the real life.And one more thing to add. The name of my and my wife’s trusted general practitioner in Kuala Lumpur is Dr. Koogan. There are many Indians in that profession in Malaysia, you know.Dmitry Kosyrev is a Russian writer, author of spy novels and short stories. He also did columns for the Pioneer and Firstpost.com
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Exactly What Is Criminal in Cybercrimes?
Living in the age when formerly impossible things happen every day, we are facing a new problem. That is, the need to comprehend anew what exactly is a crime, and exactly when that crime calls for international solutions for being prevented or punished.
And that’s exactly what is happening between Russia and India, among other such cases. Mr. Alexander Bastrykin, the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia (IC, that’s our Scotland Yard, so to say), tells us in his recent interview to Interfax agency, that Moscow and the New Delhi have decided to work out a memorandum of understanding of what we can and should do together to confront crime.
IC’s counterpart is Directorate of Investigations, Ministry of Finance, Republic of India. The document that is going to be drafted is, simply speaking, about the so-called new crime, mostly committed in cyberspace or with the help of all these precious new technologies, that are supposed to be the best part of our brilliant new world. I’m not sure about the beauty of the new world coming, but even today one thing is a fact. Bigger and bigger share of crime is being committed with the help of all kind of online activities – and that, again, is a line from the mentioned interview with Mr. Bastrykin. Here we have something that calls for developing a whole set of new rules, laws and international protocols.
If you look at that interview closer, you’ll see that Mr. Bastryking is talking, so far, about the need for consultations about consultations. First a series of meetings are deemed to be necessary, second, a memorandum is to be signed, stating that we both are on the same wavelength about the future concrete agreements between the two police structures. So, again, we both need to state clearly what kind of crime needs our cooperation.
So far we are talking, among other things, about corruption and related money transfers across borders. The issue here is verification of the other side’s methods of tracking down suspicious payments, so as to decide if we are dealing with something criminal and agree on that definition of criminality. Technicalities are of secondary importance here, though these technicalities are real fun. Like, the Russian police is employing AI now to speed up the face recognition process. Previously, a live human being had to watch the whole of a surveillance video, while now a robot may pick up the face of a suspect in a matter of seconds.
So, solving trans-border crimes may look easier now, and that will be so until the moment somebody says: hey, we don’t think it’s a crime at all. Or we are not very sure about it.
These are the 21st century realities that gave me an idea to write a thriller on that matter. I’ve got plenty of ideas on the subject after my recent visit to Thailand, and then to Malaysia. And, yes, all these ideas revolve around the talk of the towns there, that is, what to do about the huge scam cities just across yet another border.
It’s an easy case when the inmates there are simply stealing money from accounts across the world, using their proficiency in IT. The only problem is, then, what to do if the local authorities are giving shelter to such terrorists behind the LED displays. Not to mention the fact that the inhabitants of such cities are actually slaves, lured to the jungle by global slave-recruiting companies.
But imagine something more complicated, as I’m doing now. I’m placing my plot in the near future, when an internationally-renowned IT corporation builds up yet another such city in the jungle, and the neighboring state is bombing it out to hell. Yes, that’s more or less what happened between Thailand and Cambodia, but that’s secondary.
The problem is in what that corporation is doing, in that book of mine. It’s making software for medical spying devices that producers of coffee-making machines or toilet bowls are secretly putting in their wares. And then the corporation is linking these devices with national health services of certain countries, those willing to subscribe to that novelty.
How it works in practice: your toilet bowl (sorry, folks) sends a signal to your telephone, saying it has detected dangerous things in your you know what, and has contacted you national health authorities, that already have made an appointment for you.
What can go wrong, if our good doctors are saying that they save lives and protect their nations? A lot may go wrong, my book says, including government’s downfalls and international conflicts. The thing is, different nations have different ideas about what doctors are for, and what the governments can or cannot do to take care of its electorate. So, my imaginary IT-city in the jungle is normal for one group of nations, and is an abomination to other ones.
There is a good word coined by, imagine that, the Chinese in one of their recent analytical features. The word is
medicalized mentality of the Westerners, their thinking being different from other nation’s ideas of what doctors can or cannot do. The Chinese may be right this time, since it is clear that at least part of the Westerners live in constant fear of diseases and all such, the fear skillfully instigated by ideologues of total medical control over population. Needless to say, that control is about money of the medical lobby (and that’s not only the much-vilified Big Pharma), but it’s also about power as such.
That global medical lobby was harboring huge plans of ruling not just nations, but the whole world, via the supranational structures like the World Health Organization. It’s interesting to watch the current throes of America, that has left the WHO, but is devising some
alternative international body, a more expensive and cumbersome one.
The basic idea of medical profession is that it’s about people you are asking for help, and trust them absolutely. While an idea of a doctor chasing you with a baseball bat to force you into obligatory health looks, to me, a sign of serious corruption of one the world’s most respected caste. And that is definitely a crime, waiting for international cooperation to tackle it.
I describe, in my book, an international conference on that matter, where a Russian is delivering the above listed ideas, while an Indian delegate listens attentively and finally says: well, maybe that Russian has something interesting here, we need to think it over. I hope something similar will happen, one day, in the real life.
And one more thing to add. The name of my and my wife’s trusted general practitioner in Kuala Lumpur is Dr. Koogan. There are many Indians in that profession in Malaysia, you know.
Dmitry Kosyrev is a Russian writer, author of spy novels and short stories. He also did columns for the Pioneer and Firstpost.com
