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The cooperation of Russia and the United States in the investigation of the Yahoo hacking case is almost impossible, since all bilateral contacts between law enforcement agencies are frozen. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source familiar with the situation.

“After the administration’s change in Washington, there are no contacts between law enforcement officers in Russia and the United States to date. The working group, which included representatives of the competent authorities of the two countries, has practically ceased to exist,” the source said. “At this stage, it is unrealistic to talk about any possible cooperation of the two countries in the investigation of the group of tunes of the database of large American companies, in particular, YaHOO”.

Meanwhile, Kommersant reports that the FSB officer Igor Suschin, whom the US Ministry of Finance is accused of breaking the Yahoo accounts, worked as the head of the information security service of the Renaissance Capital bank. The company said that he was fired on Thursday, the day after the publication of the US charges.

According to American investigators, in 2015, Sushchin ordered another FSB officer Dmitry Dokuchaev to access the account of a member of the Board of Directors of the Russian Bank, his wife and subordinate. The name of the bank was not mentioned. The assumptions that Sushchin worked in the investment bank of Mikhail Prokhorov appeared earlier. However, officially at the Renaissance confirmed this only now.

In September, The Wall Street Journal reported that the halo hachoo hacking system And the abduction of data from 500 million accounts in 2014 involved hackers from Russia . According to a source familiar with the situation, the invasion was discovered a few weeks after the attack. In Yahoo! They came to the conclusion that it was conducted from computers located in Russia, and its goal was the people who led business in Russia.

On Wednesday, the US Ministry of Justice accused of a hacker attack on the Yahoo portal in 2014 of two FSB officers. One of the suspects is Major Dokuchaev, senior operative of the 2nd department of operational management of the FSB Information Security Center. In Russia, he was arrested in the case of the Stateizer, in which the deputy head of the QIB Sergey Mikhailov and an employee of the Kaspersky Laboratory Ruslan Stoyanov also take place.

Other defendants in the case of the hahoo hacking - Sushin and two hackers, Alexei Belan and Karim Baratov. All of them are charged with hacking, fraud and economic espionage. It is noted that this case is not related to the hacking of the servers of the US Democratic Party.

Belan has already been charged with two other cases. In December, the US Ministry of Justice imposed sanctions against him, Belan was put on the wanted list. For some time he was detained in Greece, and then returned to Russia, where he, according to the source of The Washington Post, "defend the authorities." A native of Kazakhstan Baratov is a citizen of Canada. He has already been arrested in this country.

On Friday, the US Ministry of Justice asked Russia to issue three citizens accused of cybercrime. At the same time, he was a representative of the department, Mark Raymondi, that the defendants, despite the lack of an agreement on extradition between the two countries, will be granted all the assigned rights.

"The United States with Russia does not have an agreement on extradition, but this does not interfere and should not interfere with the Russian authorities to detain and issue those who are accused of these serious crimes. In the United States, where the proper procedure will be carried out, they will be granted all the rights that defendants enjoy under our independent judicial system," Raimondi said.