Popelysh Dmitry

Biography

2011-2012: Detention and sentence

Brothers Dmitry and Evgeny Popelyshey were arrested  in 2011 on suspicion of the organization of the hacker attacks from which more than 170 clients of large Russian banks suffered. Then from bank accounts they displaid about 13 million rubles. Hackers admitted guilt, and in September, 2012 the court sentenced them to six years of imprisonment conditionally with a probation period five years.

2015: Repeated detention

In 2015 Dmitry and Evgeny Popelyshi were repeatedly delayed. Charges of creation of malware, an illegal information access and fraud were brought to them.

2019: Charge of the employee of Kaspersky Lab of coercion to cracking of accounts in banks

On September 20, 2019 it became known that the hacker Dmitry Popelysh who together with the twin brother Evgeny is accused of theft by more than 12 million rubles at bank clients accused the former employee of Kaspersky Lab of Ruslan Stoyanov of coercion to cracking of bank accounts.

The former officer of FSB Sergey Mikhaylov and the former employee of Kaspersky Lab Ruslan Stoyanov (on the right) received large terms on the case of high treason.

Popelysh said that he sent the corresponding complaint to the head of the Russian  Investigative Committee  Alexander Bastrykin. According to the hacker, criminal case against him and his twin brother Evgeny was fabricated.

Dmitry Popelysh claims that Ruslan Stoyanov blackmail and threats required from hackers to steal money from bank accounts. Popelysh said about it also by drawing up surrender in 2015, but did not tell an employee name of Kaspersky Lab. Stoyanov considers charges groundless.

Ruslan Stoyanov, the former head of department of investigation of computer incidents of Kaspersky Lab, participated in conducting technical expertize on criminal cases concerning brothers by Popelysha, but several years itself later was condemned for high treason.

According to RBC with reference to the person who was involved in investigation of criminal case concerning brothers by Popelysha,  initially Dmitry Popelysh accused not only Ruslana Stoyanova.^[1]

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