A Russian citizen extradited to New York from Switzerland on Monday faces up to 142 years in prison for hacking offences, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said on Tuesday.
Vladimir Zdorovenin, detained in Zurich on March 27 at U.S. prosecutors' request, is charged on eight counts with hacking U.S. brokerage accounts in U.S. banks, stealing their clients' personal data and defrauding them of “hundreds of thousands of dollars,” RAPSI news agency reported. The documents do not indicate the exact amount.
According to the prosecutor's office, Zdorovenin has also been accused of attempted security market manipulation through his own Internet company.
The criminal case against Zdorovenin and his son Kirill was initiated in 2007. Bharara maintains that they committed fraud from Russia via bogus websites since 2005.
Kirill has been granted bail but his whereabouts have not been specified.