Peter Yuryevich Levashov, too known equally Peter Severa, was arrested inwards Apr this twelvemonth when he was travelling alongside his household unit of measurement to Barcelona, Kingdom of Spain from his dwelling trace solid inwards Russia—a province without an extradition treaty alongside the United States—for his usage inwards a huge estimator botnet.
However, since Levashov has previously worked alongside for Vladimir Putin's United Russian Federation Party for 10 years, he fears that the US regime would torture him for information most his political function if sent at that spot to confront the charges against him.
"If I become to the U.S., I volition popular off inwards a year. They desire to larn information of a military machine nature together with most the United Russian Federation party," RIA intelligence way quoted Levashov equally saying. "I volition live on tortured, inside a twelvemonth I volition live on killed, or I volition kill myself."
Levashov was defendant of operating the Kelihos botnet—a global network of to a greater extent than than 100,000 infected computers used to deliver spam, bag login passwords together with infect computers alongside ransomware together with other malware since at to the lowest degree 2010.
While initially it was speculated that Levashov was involved inwards 2016 U.S. election hacking, the FBI made it clear that the suspect was arrested due to his interest inwards the Kelihos botnet together with spamming targets for trying together with forcing them to purchase worthless stock.
According to the FBI officials, Levashov used the same IP address to operate Kelihos botnet that he used to access his e-mail together with other online accounts inwards his name, including Apple iCloud together with Google Gmail accounts.
The Department of Justice's indictment said the Russian suspect allegedly used Kelihos to distribute hundreds of millions of spam e-mails every year, together with pump-and-dump stock scams, peculiarly targeting Microsoft Windows machines for infection.
Besides conducting spamming operations, Levashov too allegedly used the Kelihos botnet to infect end-user computers alongside malware together with harvest passwords to online together with banking concern accounts belonging to thousands of Americans.
The U.S. had requested Levashov's arrest, together with subsequently his arrest inwards Apr 2016, Russian Federation inwards September filed a counter-extradition asking for Levashov hours earlier the master copy extradition hearing.
However, Spain's High Court has approved the U.S. extradition asking of Levashov, who has been charged alongside wire fraud together with unauthorised interception of electronic communications.
U.S. prosecutors are seeking a 52-year jail judgement against Levashov, who has already denied the charges against him, Reuters reported.
Levashov has similar a shot only 3 days to appeal his extradition to the United States.
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