Court in the United States has sentenced Russian Andrey Tyurin to 12 years in prison for cybercrime
The Federal Courtroom of the Southern District of New York sentenced Russian Andrey Tyurin to 12 a long time in prison for committing a quantity of cybercrimes. In addition, he was purchased to pay out the United States 19 million bucks
The Russian Consulate Common in New York is in contact with regulation enforcement companies in the United States in the case of the Russian Andrei Tyurin, who was sentenced by the courtroom to 12 years in prison for cybercrime, claimed the press secretary of the diplomatic mission Alexey Topolsky.
According to him, the conditions of detention of the Russian citizen have been difficult in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Topolsky recalled that Tyurin contracted the coronavirus in an American prison.
“The Russian Consulate Common in New York is checking the circumstance of Andrei Tyurin and is in call with US regulation enforcement agencies,” explained Topolsky.
In his past speech, Tyurin stated that he sincerely repents for what he did.
According to the decide, Tyurin will have to reimburse the United States 19 million 214 thousand 956 bucks, this is the financial gain that he derived from his prison actions.
By US expectations, a 12-yr sentence is not the harshest for this kind of a crime, suggests global law firm Timur Marchani.
“In the United States, for crimes linked to cybersecurity, for crimes that entail hacking the banking procedure, some of the harshest penalties are provided. Below, the courtroom took into account to start with of all the hacker’s regret and, most importantly, cooperation with the preliminary investigation authorities and then with the court,” stated Mr. Marchani.
Recall that the Russian was detained in Ga at the request of the United States in December 2017. In September 2018, he was extradited to the United States. In September 2019, the Turin pleaded responsible to six counts of the indictment.
According to the investigation, Tyurin participated in a “world-wide hacking marketing campaign” versus big monetary institutions, brokerage corporations, news businesses and other companies, including Fidelity Investments, E-Trade Money and Dow Jones & Co.
Prosecutor Jeffrey Berman explained that Tyurin finally collected consumer facts from more than 80 million victims, “which is one particular of the largest thefts of American customer data for a single economical institution in record.”
