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Moscow cameras streamed false pictures
Published: 13 January, 2010, 08:52
Edited: 02 February, 2010, 05:00
TAGS: Crime, Scandal, Russia, SciTech
Police have learned that CCTV cameras all across Moscow streamed prerecorded pictures, while the company servicing them received more than a million dollars in payments.
The company, StroyMontageService, has been accused of security fraud. Police have detained its director, Dmitry Kudryavtsev, who denies all charges saying the scandal is an attempt by his rivals to squeeze him out of the market.
The alleged fraud was uncovered during a routine check of Moscow CCTV cameras.
“From May to September 2009 CCTV cameras in several districts of Moscow streamed pre-recorded pictures instead of real-time video,” police spokeswoman Olga Dumalkina stated on Tuesday.
According to the contract with StroyMontageService, the Moscow government only paid for working cameras. Dumalkina said the company unreasonably received around one million dollars for the northeastern district alone.
Investigators say apart from falsifying pictures the company also distributed a computer virus in order to obstruct activities of its rival in the western district of the capital.
There are more than 80,000 security cameras in public places in Moscow. The project was launched several years ago by Mayor Yury Luzhkov at a cost of 17 million dollars.
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Sarah, good point, but don't straight away assume the story is true. It looks a bit too ridiculous. The people I've met in Moscow are smart -- melancholy, nostalgic to the point of hopeless romanticism, heavy drinkers like us Finns, but smart -- and I don't off-hand buy the proposition that these security people just didn't notice anything odd on their screens. (The article doesn't say if it was still images or video loops -- I don't buy either one.) A wild wild guess: the company (also spreading a virus -- how original) is legit but didn't pay their "blat" and now gets nixed. That said, what the story says is also perfectly possible. Which is why I love Russia. Never simple. :-)
Well the russian have adopted Democracy,and want to be better than the west in scams.oh well not bad becoming democratic,plenty of perks if you are at the top.welcome russians we in the west have got used to being ripped off.All you need now is get your broadcasting and media peasents bombarding its subjects ,how great it is being democratic.,the humans masses are just sheep to be herded.