Russian citizen Dmitry Ukrainsky, convicted in the United States for stealing more than $30 million as part of a hacker group, was released and deported to Russia. As RBC reports, this was announced by the vice-president of the Russian branch of the International Committee for the Defense of Human Rights, Ivan Melnikov.
“He has already arrived and is expecting to meet his family soon. <…> At the moment, Dmitry is at large,” Melnikov said.
The Ukrainian was arrested in Pattaya in 2016 at the request of the FBI. The kingdom’s authorities sentenced him to ten years in prison. In the summer of the same year, the Russian side turned to the Prosecutor General’s Office of Thailand with a request to extradite Ukrainian, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a note to the kingdom about the inadmissibility of extraditing the Russian to the United States.
In 2017, the court approved his extradition to Russia, and in 2019, the Thai authorities allowed the extradition of the Russian to the United States. Ukrainian was extradited from Thailand to the United States in the summer of 2022. The court concluded that the hacker group to which the accused belonged stole more than $30 million from the cards of citizens of the USA, Australia, Japan, Italy, Great Britain and Germany. American authorities have been investigating the Russian’s activities since 2014, when they discovered several suspicious transfers of funds to Thai accounts. The Ukrainian denied his guilt.
Source: Rosbalt
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