Czechs Arrest Russian Hacker Wanted By FBI (go.com)

Bookworm09 quotes a report from New York Times (paywalled, alternate source): A man identified as a Russian hacker suspected of pursuing targets in the United States has been arrested in the Czech Republic, the police announced Tuesday evening. The suspect was captured in a raid at a hotel in central Prague on Oct. 5, about 12 hours after the authorities heard that he was in the country, where he drove around in a luxury car with his girlfriend, according to the police. The man did not resist arrest, but he had medical problems and was briefly hospitalized, the police said in a statement. The FBI said in a statement that the man was "suspected of conducting criminal activities targeting U.S. interests. As cybercrime can originate anywhere in the world, international cooperation is crucial to successfully defeat cyber adversaries." ABC News reports: "Prague's Municipal Court will now have to decide on his extradition to the United States, with Justice Minister Robert Pelikan having the final say. Russian officials, however, are demanding that the suspect be handed over to them. Spokeswoman Marketa Puci said the court ruled on Oct. 12 that the man will remain in detention until the extradition hearing. No date has yet been set. U.S. authorities have two months to deliver to their Czech counterparts all of the documents necessary for the Czech authorities to decide on the extradition request."

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Re: How Embarrasing

[phayes]

Oh yeah, Germany and Japan are quisling governments completely subservient to the U.S... when the press you read is russian.

Russians can't even conceive that The U.S. wants allies and does not want/need slave states the way Russia installs in areas like the occupied areas it has illegally annexed in Georgia / the Ukraine.

Thats why putinbots like the above AC flood the internet with their warped reality posts.

Re:How Embarrasing

[phayes]

Awww... Putin not happy that members of his private hacker army that he hides behind to hack everyone cannot continue to vacation in the countries that the USSR made into quisling regimes for so long. Poor, poor Putin...

Part of U.S. backlash for Russian state sponsored hacking appears to be denying their ability to vacation outside of Russia. Europeans like me are much more pissed of at Putin for his and the Assad regimes war crimes that created the emigration flux than they are at the U.S. for asking for the arrest of a russian hacker and then detailing why they asked for it.

Re: How Embarrasing

[dunkelfalke]

Russian occupied Georgia and Ukraine? Seriously? By that logic Mexico is occupied by the USA because Americans have annexed Texas.

And yep, some critics have been indeed imprisoned
http://hrlc.org.au/preventive-...

Still, what you are doing is moving the goalposts. I have stated that many German government officials consider American interests more important than interests of German citizens and you try to switch the topic to imprisonment. And by the way, East Germany and USSR didn't imprison every critic. I know - I am originally from Rostock.