Dmitri Golubov (politician)


Dmitri Golubov is a Ukrainian politician and former Member of the Parliament of Ukraine, cybercriminal, former carder. He is also the leader of the Internet Party of Ukraine. Although he has never taken part in any election as a candidate of this party.
In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Golubov won a parliamentary seat as a candidate for Petro Poroshenko Bloc constituency 136 located in Odessa with 30.31% of the votes.
In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Golubov was not reelected in constituency 136, this time as an independent candidate, with 40.92% of the votes.
In 2012 Golubov bought 4376 bitcoins and declared it in 2017.

Carderplanet case

In the mid-2000s, Golubov was involved in a hacking case with international payment bank cards under the nickname of Script.
In 2001 or 2003, Carderplanet.com was launched and registered in Madagascar, where group of about 7,000 card-criminals were engaged in bank card fraud. The participants registered on the site were mainly representatives of Eastern European countries.
Because of Wikileaks-related activities, the leaders of the criminal group were assisted by police and intelligence agencies in many countries, including the FBI and the US Treasury Department. On July 7, 2005, Golubov was detained at his home in Odessa.
Golubov spent six months in the Lukyanivska Prison in Kyiv. He was threatened with imprisonment for up to 12 years. On December 22, 2005, at a preliminary hearing in the Solomensky District Court of Kyiv, Judge Volodymyr Skoryk decided to release Golubov from custody and transfer him to bail MPs Volodymyr Makeyenko and Volodymyr Makeenko. They made a deposit of 50,000 hryvnias each. The judge denied MasterCard and Visa representatives to appear in court as civil plaintiffs.
After four years of court proceedings, Golubov was fully acquitted by the Solomensky District Court of Kyiv under Articles 200 part 2, 255 part 1, 190 part 4 because of "lack of corpus delicti."