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April 23rd, 2017 
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nsnbc : Roman Seleznev, the son of Russian lawmaker Valery Seleznev was sentenced Friday by a U.S. federal court to 27 years in prison after being convicted of a cyber assault on thousands of U.S. businesses, involving a credit card scheme, and marking the longest hacking-related sentence in the United States.
Igor Litvak, the attorney for Russian hacker Roman Seleznev, talks to reporters, April 21, 2017, following the sentencing.
The 32-year-old Roman Seleznev found guilty last year by a jury in Seattle of perpetrating a scheme that prosecutors said involved hacking into point-of-sale computers to steal credit card numbers and caused $169 million in losses to U.S. firms. The Russian government repeatedly stressed that his arrest in the Maldives was illegal. On Friday it issued a statement criticizing the sentence and expressing the believe that Seleznev’s lawyer planned to appeal.
The Russian Embassy in Washington D.C. posted on its Facebook page: “We continue to believe that the arrest of the Russian citizen Roman Seleznev, who de facto was kidnapped on the territory of a third country, is unlawful”. Roman Seleznev is the son of Valery Seleznev, a member of the Russian parliament.
Judge Richard A. Jones of the Western District of Washington imposed the sentence following a decade-long investigation by the U.S. Secret Service. In a handwritten statement provided by his lawyer, Roman Seleznev said he believed the harsh sentence was a way for the United States government to send a message to Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin. He wrote: “This message the United States sent today is not the right way to show Vladimir Putin, Russia or any other government in this world how justice works in a democracy.”
Prosecutors said that from October 2009 to October 2013, Roman Seleznev stole credit card numbers from more than 500 U.S. businesses, transferred the data to servers in Virginia, Russia and the Ukraine and eventually sold the information on criminal “carding” websites. He faces separate charges pending in federal courts in Nevada and Georgia. A federal grand jury in Connecticut returned an eight-count indictment charging a Russian national who was arrested earlier this month with operating the Kelihos botnet, a global network of tens of thousands of infected computers, said the U.S. Justice Department said Friday.
F/AK – nsnbc 22.04.2017
Source Article from https://nsnbc.me/2017/04/22/27-years-for-son-of-russian-mp-for-credit-card-and-hacking-scheme/
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