MOSCOW, November 29 (RAPSI) - Russian police have arrested members of an international organized criminal group from Nigeria that stole over $400,000 from a French company, the Russian Minister of the Interior announced Thursday.

“The suspects developed websites and email addresses which looked like those of Russian transport and resource-producing companies and used false ID to open bank accounts in Moscow,” the report says.

The group set up a page with a Russian domain name that appeared to belong to a major company. They then posted an ad for various petrochemicals online. A French company responded to the ad and signed a $400,000 contract with the fraudsters. After the payment was made, the “Russian traders” disappeared.

Currently, the suspects are being detained. False stamps of sham companies, computers and other equipment used to commit the crimes have been confiscated from their rented apartments. A fraud case has been opened.