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2017-2020
On April 26, 2017, Yuri Martyshev was arrested in Latvia and transferred to the United States on June 28 of the same year. Charges were brought against him of embezzlement using an online service Scan4you about 40 million credit and debit card numbers, the holders of which were, among other things, Americans. The total damage is estimated at $20.5 billion. Yuri Martyshev confirmed the creation of a service with which it was possible to check whether the antivirus was able to detect programs. As a result of data leaks of users of this service, 16 thousand computers were damaged.
On April 19, 2019, he was sentenced to six and a half years in prison. Martyshev had to compensate the victims in the amount of over $8 million. The lawyer filed a petition for the release of his client in 2020. He referred to the fact that Yuri Martyshev has "lung problems."
The Russian embassy in the United States called the extradition of the Russian "another case of abduction of a Russian citizen by the American authorities." According to diplomats, Washington violated the current bilateral Agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Cases of 1999.
2022: Deportation to Russia
In December 2022, it became known about the upcoming deportation of Yuri Martyshev, who was convicted of cybercrime in the United States. This was told by his lawyer Alexei Tarasov.
We expect Yuri Martyshev to be released from custody on December 20. Then he will be transferred to the immigration service for further consideration (his case), and ultimately he will be deported back to Russia, "Tarasov said (quoted by RIA Novosti).
According to the lawyer, the Russian is waiting for the opportunity to return to his homeland, and his defense is in contact with the migration authorities, seeking to accelerate this process. This procedure will be launched as soon as he is released from custody, Tarasov added. The hacker's sentence is calculated from the moment of detention in the spring of 2017 in Latvia, from where he was delivered to the United States.[1]
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