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."

Comments

How Embarrasing

[rtb61]

Seriously guys, it looks really pathetic when the Czech police arrest some one and US law enforcers make the public statements. The only comment from Czech authorities, baa, baa, baa (Czech dudes watch out for the gum boots, http://www.urbandictionary.com...). The Czech police did the arresting, than they should make the public statements and the FBI should shut the fuck up, otherwise it looks really bad, like baa, baa, bad and right now thanks to the purposeful immigrant crisis Europeans are pretty pissed off with the US government and NATO and you do not want to be so diplomatically arrogant and clumsy.

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

[dunkelfalke]

Look, I am German and I do think that our government kisses American arses. Many of our politicians, especially of our conservative party, have explicitly stated that they consider USA being the best friend of Germany, American interests being more important than concerns of German citizens and that anybody who thinks different just hates the US.

Re:How Embarrasing

[rtb61]

Diplomacy right over you head isn't it. The Czech authorities are the arresting officers, they are the ones in charge, the FBI is this regard are nobodies, zero authority, just witnesses providing information to the Czech authorities to act upon. It is entirely up to Czech authorities to make public statements ie they arrested someone based upon the evidence provided by foreign witnesses and that then extends out to a Czech legal process to finalise the extradition. You are obviously heavily into American exceptionlism and that is really quite distasteful in the rest of the world. If the evidence is there cool, one less criminal (ten less, thousands less, no matter the nationality, good work by the FBI as long as they can properly prove their case) to deal with on the internet but the Czech authorities are the ones in charge not US witnesses who should have made no public statements but have left that up to Czech authorities (otherwise it looks very much like they are forcing the Czech authorities hand and issuing orders to Czech courts). The way the FBI presented it, is they ordered the Czech authorities and they were required to shut up and obey and that looks really bad and can be made to look a whole lot worse. Your waffle added on top, just makes it look even worse for any Europeans reading it. Also it sounds very much like the did nothing in the interim with regard to communicating with the Russian authorities and that also looks really bad (better to make the request, have it ignored and then take action, rather than insult all Russian investigatory agencies because that will end all possibilities of cooperation, just stupidly arrogantly clumsy, as they can not now point the finger at Russian authorities and state they ignored the issue, needs to be done every time). I suppose all that will also go over your head. You can pretend all you want that Europeans are happy with the US it will not change anything and all other US government agencies carrying on as if American exceptionalism exists outside of America but it will only make things much worse (sure a whole bunch of corrupt European politicians are owned by multinational corporations but that does not reflect in the desires of majority Europeans). PS I am not fucking Russian, if you must know, as it seems to burn your brain I am Croatian Australian (neither have particular fond ties with Russian, not in the least but both can be quite up tight if their authority is not respected within their own country by other countries).

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.

Re:How Embarrasing

[rtb61]

Watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... What more needs to be said.

Nothing to do with DNC

[imidan]

Because all of the posts so far are about the Clinton email/DNC hacks, and because the summary is obviously trying to cash in on current political events to make this a big story by excluding this, here is a quote FTFA:

Law enforcement officials in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment while the investigation was underway, said Wednesday that the suspect did not appear to be related to the hacking of the Democrats’ emails or to organizations like DCLeaks or WikiLeaks.

Re: Yeh it reveals their crimes

[dunkelfalke]

Just to nitpick, if you actually say "borscht" to a Russian, they wouldn't understand you immediately. You see, that particular Cyrillic letter at sounds as "sht" only in Bulgarian. Ukrainians pronounce it as "shch", which would sort of work in Russian, as it is the same in some dialects. In Russian proper that letter sounds like a very soft (Russian is more or less the softest of all Slavic languages) sh, sort of like in the word "sheep", but still softer. Imagine the word "sheep" as said by a very camp gay, that "sh" would sound close.

Re:Americans, don't complain when you got arrested

[gl4ss]

usa doesn't extradite american hackers so why would any country send anyone in for the same thing is beyond me.

oh and .. well. about abducting people. this is hardly the best example of it since it's going through authorities and usa has demonstrated the will and ability to do it even without authorization.