Discussing the truth of the August theft.

Day 1,258, 02:46 • Published in Australia Australia • by Hinokai

I come bringing a rather serious article today, rather at odds with my (for some reason deleted) joke article a few days back. This will probably cause some people to shit brix so hold onto your hats.

Some Backstory

A couple months back, you may recall that I obtained some compensation from admins for a theft that occurred back in August. At the time I wrote an article where I skimmed over the occasion and stroked my epeen for a while, but I didn't really get too much into it.

Well, now I will. When I entered my term as CP in September last year, I noticed that the Reserve Bank of Australia was incredibly, incredibly bare. I got in contact with previous (exile) CP Dean Kong and previous MoF venja, and eventually worked out that it happened somewhere in a week between venja's resignation near the end of Dean's month and the first day of incoming new MoF, Alesayr.

Money stolen numbered to 254,420 AUD (as well as 2,546 PLN, 4,819 USD, 5,380 RON and 500 PHP), which at the time would have been worth over 2500 gold equivalent. I opened a ticket with haste, but got very little response and had to harass admins constantly over the space of 6 months before I got the money back. But one thing evaded me no matter the requests I made from admins - who was the true culprit behind the crime?

Through ticketing admins I had managed to work out that the AUD had gone to a multi, but the only information they parted with beyond that was that it was spent on 250,000 AUD worth of products (obviously overpriced for money washing). However, something else was told to me at the time, which I had dismissed due to timing and the name, until a couple days ago when I completely fluked a realization.

The foreign currencies had not gone to a multi, instead they had gone to Angel and Demon Org which is not as you would think, and Indo org - it belongs to one sir_c0nstant.

So what actually happened?

I'm sure you're wondering what actually went down. Well, I of course don't know specifically, as admins won't answer anything I ask anymore and I only have what I have, but I'll work through what I know.

On the 26th of August, after Venja resigned, the RBA was basically unused, because if I recall right, DeanKong was incompetent and didn't even have the password at hand. I have a screenshot from Alesayr confirming he didn't get the password until the 29th, so basically there was a period of time where no one really had access right? Wrong. Due to more failure on the part of Dean Kong, the password had not been changed since the previous month of sir_c0nstant's, meaning that the only two people who could possibly have accessed the org were venja and sir_c0nstant.

Early on I ruled out venja cause of the fact there were many other times he could have stolen, and stolen much more. Later I got solid confirmation that it couldn't have been venja, amazingly enough from admins.



The money moved from the Reserve Bank to the Dropbear Alpha Squad org. Considering that Dean changed basically no passwords, not to mention he didn't even HAVE half of them, there's only one person that would have had the password to both the RBA and Dropbear Alpha Squad, and that is the previous CP (in exile), sir_c0nstant.

After this, I ran into a wall. There was no real way to prove that sir_c0nstant did it, and no real connection to the crime, other than the fact that he suddenly came into money around the time this happened.



Eventually, admins told me where the money went after it went through the DB org. This was the last time they actually responded to me, so at the time as I mentioned before, I simply gave up and didn't see the connection between the org. But anyone who knows the origin of the Angel and Demon Org will know that it was made by sir_c0nstant during the PTO to attempt to deceive Indonesian congressmen.


Tact is for losers.

When you get down to it, it's not much of a link, but it's something. So, as I do, I immediately confronted the issue with the grace of of an 18 wheeler.

http://pastebin.com/YtEN5x5k

The log basically explains itself there, and it was quite a step forward in my investigation, and of course creates some rather interesting questions and connections. I've since tried to catch SC on IRC, but it seems that he hasn't been around very much since. Probably a moot point though, as I can't see the discussion going anywhere, otherwise I wouldn't have written this article.

Even now there are still many things unknown about the theft (as with any), but hopefully this will shed a bit of light on the issue, as to me it seems like there can only be one culprit here, and I wanted people to at least know the full story.

If anyone wants to, hit me up on IRC with questions or thoughts, or I guess comment here. Vote and shout this for me too, spreading the word is important.

Good evening eAustralia.