Marketing, E-commerce and Digital Design, Product Management, Brand Development, Design, Advertising and Consultancy

FBI indicts eight people in first major ad fraud case handed over to feds

on Nov 28, 2018 | 0 comments

By Charlotte McEleny

The United States Department of Justice has announced that it has taken action to pull down two major ad fraud rings, unveiling a 13-count indictment to charge criminal violations.

The announcement said the indictments charge Aleksandr Zhukov, Boris Timokhin, Mikhail Andreev, Denis Avdeev, Dmitry Novikov, Sergey Ovsyannikov, Aleksandr Isaev and Yevgeniy Timchenko with criminal violations for being involved in the ad fraud, now called 3ve.

The charges come after an industry task force, the workings of which has been detailed by Buzzfeed, handed over the details of what they started to suspect was a major ad fraud Read full story ›

Source: The Drum