Whom the US can be given to Russia as part of a new exchange?

Mostly hackers-canorships and those who helped Russia bypassing sanctions

After a recent conversation between the presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, the assistant to the Russian president Yuri Ushakov announced a new exchange of prisoners between Russia and the United States according to the “nine by nine” formula. The Russian wind -state human rights activist Ivan Melnikov called the names that may be included in the list for a new exchange. He called these people citizens "who in Russia can be good businessmen, to be very beneficial for our society."

We tell you what is known about potential exchange candidates.

Maxim Marchenko

Russian Maxim Marchenko, who lived in Hong Kong, was arrested in Fiji in September 2023 and extradited in the United States. Marchenko was accused of delivering dual-use microelectronics bypassing export restrictions on Russia, including OLED microdispieces used in military equipment, such as sights and night vision devices. To bypass US sanctions, he used a network of Hong Kong Foot Companies, including Alice Components, Neway Technologies and RG Solutions.

Marchenko pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years in prison and three years of conditional supervision.

Apparently, the Hong Kong companies that the US Ministry of Justice associates with Marchenko delivered not only the OLED displays, but also the American-made microprocessors.

The New Gazeta Europe previously analyzed the supply of American microelectronics to Russia. So, Neway Technologies, Alice Components and RG Solutions made dozens of deliveries of American microprocessors, which are also used in Russian missiles to Russia. The total amount of these supplies is about four million dollars.

Most of the supplies from Marchenko, according to Novaya Gazeta Europe, was received by the St. Petersburg NPC Topaz, the main owner of which is former police officer Alexei Frolov. At least in 2017, he worked in the police department for particularly important and regime objects in St. Petersburg. The Topaz itself is not under sanctions, but previously supplied imported microelectronics NGO Electromechanics, which is under the sanctions of the EU and the USA.

Sergey Nechaev

Russian Sergei Nechaev, who also has US citizenship, was arrested at the end of 2024 on charges of violation of American export control norms. The US Ministry of Justice claims that Nechaev in 2023 tried to take out two small Cessna aircraft with a total cost of about 170 thousand dollars from the United States. When drawing up documents for the removal of aircraft, Nechaev pointed out that the end recipient of aircraft is in Armenia, when he was actually, according to the US Ministry of Justice, a flight school in Russia. He can face up to 35 years in an American prison.

Vladimir Dunaev

Vladimir Dunaev is a hacker, whom the American authorities found guilty of developing the malicious Trickbot program. He was detained in 2023 in South Korea and extradited in the United States, where he was sentenced to five years and four months in prison.

Using Trickbot, hackers gained access to computers and made their contents inaccessible to users. For unlocking computers, hackers demanded a ransom in cryptocurrency. Attacks were also subjected to schools and hospitals in the USA, China, Australia, Mexico, France and other countries. The United States and Britain also imposed sanctions against 11 Russians participating in the development of Trickbot. The United States charged in this case and the citizen of Latvia.

Rostislav Panev

Rostislav Panev is a 51-year-old citizen of Russia and Israel, accused of developing malicious software for the Lockbit hacker group. He was arrested in Israel in August 2024 at the request of the United States and extradited in March 2025 in New Jersey, where he appeared before the federal court of the prosecution, including cybercrime and extortion.

Lockbit, according to the US Ministry of Justice, was one of the most active and destructive malware in the world. With its help, more than 2500 victims in 120 countries attacked. The victims were both private individuals and transnational corporations, as well as hospitals, schools and critical infrastructure facilities. According to the American authorities, Lockbit developers received more than $ 500 million as a ransom from owners of infected computers.

The alleged leader of the group, Dmitry Khoroshev (he is also known under the nickname Putinkrab), is still on the wanted list, and a reward of up to $ 10 million has been announced for information about his whereabouts.

Alexander Zhukov

Alexander Zhukov is a Russian who called himself the "king of fraud." He was arrested in 2018 in Bulgaria at the request of the United States. In 2021, the American court sentenced him to 10 years in prison for large-scale Internet abuse in the field of digital advertising.

Zhukov was found guilty of organizing a scheme called Methbot (also known as 3VE), in which he and his accomplices and his accomplices from 2014 to 2016 used botnets and false websites to simulate views of video rejects to deceive advertisers and receive advertising income, which was actually not visible to real users.

The scheme organized by Zhukov caused damage mainly to American advertising companies that suffered losses of about seven million dollars, the US Ministry of Justice noted. He simulated views of video rejects on popular American sites (for example, The New York Times, ESPN, Fox News and others), deceiving advertisers.

Oleg Patsul and Vasily Besedin

Oleg Patsul and Vasily Besedin were arrested in the United States in May 2023 on charges of delivering American spare parts for civilian aircraft to bypass export restrictions. Patsyulya was sentenced to 70 months (almost six years) in prison, Besedin to two years.

According to the US Ministry of Justice, Patsul and Besedin received more than $ 4.5 million from an account in a Turkish bank from Russian airlines.

According to The Insider, Patsul and Besedin sent letters to Russian airlines with a proposal to buy air spare parts from them, noting that their company already has customers in Russia, including the Smartavia and the Ministry of Defense.

The wife and child of Patsuli are US citizens. After serving the sentence, he will be deported to Russia or Ukraine, where he was born, and will not be able to return to America.

Yana Leonova

Melnikov also mentioned the possibility of exchange of Belarus, Yana Leonova, detained in France. Nothing is known about her. However, it probably is related to the French company, based under Paris, which issued hundreds of fake customs declarations, which allowed Russia to import goods for tens of millions of euros bypassing sanctions. In mid -2024, the French customs authorities stopped the company's activities.

Other cases of the bypass of anti -Russian sanctions in France in recent years by which citizens of Russia or Belarus could be detained, Novaya Gazeta Europe could not be detected.

Anatoly Light Dyamov

Anatoly Light Dyamov is the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange of Bitzlato. According to the FBI, $ 715 million “dirty” money passed through the exchange - that is, received by criminal means. For example, using the sale of drugs (Bitzlato did not block the payments received from the then largest darknet market for Hydra), or from hacks of other people's wallets. At the same time, a crypto with Bitzlato could be taken to ordinary cards. In addition, the American authorities believe that the Light Dynamov exchange conducted transactions of the CONTI hacker group, "which has ties with the Russian government."

Light Dyamov was arrested in January 2023 in Miami. He was not charged with the actual money laundering - but only negligence during verification procedures on his exchange. Light Dyamov pleaded guilty. According to the service administrators, they managed to return to customers up to 60% of the assets. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison and released after the sentence in July 2024 - he had already left the necessary term in anticipation of the court.