Foreign Ministry of Latvia against the issuance of his hacker Washington

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia opposed the issuance of the United States 27-year-old programmer Denis Chalovsky, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the Minister of Education and Science of Vyacheslav Dombrovsky, who is now temporarily acting as the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Latvian is suspected that together with the citizens of Russia and Romania, is the author of the Gozi computer virus, which hit over a million computers. Among the victims and the American space department of NASA. Now for this Washington threatens the Latvian with imprisonment of up to 67 years.

The hacker was detained during a special operation in Riga in December 2012. Later, the Supreme Court of Latvia recognized it as possible to give it to the US authorities, but the last decision is beyond the government of the Baltic Republic. Now Chalovsky disputes the compliance of the Latvian constitution of the Washington and Riga agreement on the extradition of criminals.