A hacker group that claims to have stolen from Hillary Clinton was also digging in the bank accounts of several prominent Russian right-wing politicians

The hacker group “Lurk” reportedly stole large sums of money from several prominent members of the right-wing Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, according to the lawyer for Konstantin Kozlovsky, who was one of the group’s leaders. Case evidence shared with the website Znak.com apparently shows that hackers took 4 million rubles ($63,000) from Vladimir Zhirinovsky, 99 million rubles ($1.6 million) from Igor Lebedev, and almost 1.7 million euros (nearly $2 million) from Vadim Dengin.

Police detained members of the so-called “Lurk” hacker group in mid-2016 on charges of using the “Lurk” virus to steal roughly 3 billion rubles ($47.2 million) from banks and commercial organizations.

• In August 2017, Kozlovsky reportedly declared in court that he acted “under the command of Russian Federal Security Service agents” when he supposedly participated in the hacking of the U.S. Democratic National Committee and stole Hillary Clinton’s emails.