Russia slams hacker’s extradition to US
January 20th, 2012 - 5:50 am ICT by IANSMoscow, Jan 20 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Moscow has accused Washington of unlawfully extraditing a Russian national from Switzerland, the foreign ministry spokesman said.
Alexander Lukashevich said Thursday that Russian national Vladimir Zdorovenin, accused of financial cyber crimes, faces up to 142 years in prison in the US, where he was extradited from Switzerland earlier this week.
“Unfortunately, this is not the first time when US special services organise the detention of our nationals in third countries, often on dubious grounds and by provocative methods,” Lukashevich said.
“What we’re looking at is the unlawful exterritorial application of US laws against Russian nationals.”
Moscow also complained that neither the Swiss nor US authorities notified it about Zdorovenin’s extradition.
At his arraignment before US judge Gabriel W. Gorenstein at the Manhattan federal court, Zdorovenin pleaded not guilty.
Top FBI officials announced the unsealing of a nine-count indictment, charging Zdorovenin and his son Kirill with conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud, computer fraud, aggravated identity theft, and securities fraud.
The father and son were indicted in May 2007.
Vladimir was apprehended March 27, 2011, in Zurich, Switzerland, and arrived in New York Monday after being extradited by the Swiss authorities.
Kirill remains at large.
According to the indictment, between 2004 and 2005 the Russians “allegedly engaged in a series of crimes in Russia that victimised citizens of the US through the use of stolen credit card information, multiple phony websites, and bank accounts in Russia and Latvia”.
–IANS/RIA Novosti
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