Switzerland issued the United States Russian hacker. He threatens up to 142 years in prison

The American authorities announced the extradition from Switzerland of a 54-year-old citizen of Russia Vladimir Heznin, accused with his son Kirill of kidnapping data from credit cards of American citizens and thus damage in the amount of several hundred thousand dollars.

As stated in a joint statement by the Prosecutor's Office of New York and the FBI, the charge of fraud under nine points was brought by Russians back in May 2007. In particular, they are charged with theft of personal data and fraud with securities, ITAR-TASS reports.

Muscovite Vladimir Zdovnin was detained on March 27, 2011 in Zurich and extradited by the Swiss authorities in New York last Monday, January 16. His son, as noted in the statement, is at large.

According to the Federal Prosecutor of the Southern District of New York, Priest Bharara, Vladimir and Kirill Zdovnina made a series of cybercriminals from the territory of Russia directed against American citizens.

“Having gained access to their personal and financial information, they made a fake transactions and manipulated shares prices. This case is evidence that we will pursue cybercriminals around the world to hold them accountable,” said Bharara.

The representative of the FBI, Jennis Fedarchik, added that the health of the credit cards abducted the healthy cards, caused damage to consumers to hundreds of thousands of dollars, which were "laundered" through the standing companies.

"In addition, Vladimir Hezenin is suspected that with the help of malicious programs he gained access to brokerage customer accounts, made transactions with their shares and manipulated the prices of them," the department said.

According to the indictment, which received last Tuesday, January 17, the New York Criminal Court, from 2004 to 2005, is healthy, while in Russia, they repeatedly stole personal information, including credit card numbers, by installing special software on computers.

In addition, the accused transferred funds from the accounts to which they received illegal access to the accounts controlled by them. Also, using access to brokerage accounts of American citizens, they manipulated securities and then made a transactions beneficial for themselves through the specially created company "Rome Investment Mental".

In accordance with the charges made by Vladimir Hezenin, the maximum sentence in the form of 142 years of imprisonment threatens.

On Tuesday, January 17, hearing in the Federal Court of the Southern District of New York Vladimir Hezinin refused to find himself guilty. The following hearings are scheduled for Thursday, January 19.

Meanwhile, Russian citizen Vladimir Hezenin, accused by the New York prosecutor’s office of cyber abbess, did not enter the Russian Consulate General of Russia in New York, was not received by Russian citizen. This was stated by ITAR-TASS Consul General of the Russian Federation in New York Andrei Yushmanov.

"We will not have official information from the American authorities about extradition from Switzerland to the United States, allegedly contained here under arrest. We will clarify the reasons for his detention and delivery to the United States, as well as all the circumstances that are associated with this case," Yushmanov said.