At the hearing of a guarantee held on Friday we passed for him hacker Roman Valerevich Seleznev, prosecutors have revealed that the defendant's laptop confiscated contained 2.1 millions of stolen credit card numbers.
Seleznev is the son of Valery Seleznev, a member of the Liberal Democratic political party of the Duma State, and is accused of violating US-based point-of-sale retail companies. The information that traded the traders through a forum under his control.
At the moment, there is no information about where to pass credit cards and whether they were going to be sold to cyber criminals via an underground forum.
In accordance with Q13 FOX, the defendant's lawyers demanded that Seleznev be placed under house arrest in a furnished Seattle apartment, with a $ XNUMX million bail.
But U.S. Magistrate Judge James P. Donohue denied bail and said Seleznev is a flight risk because he has no ties to the Washington.
The most important reason that the prosecutor did not allow his release with a guarantee is that the hacker has the necessary knowledge to construct fake documents that will allow him to leave the US border.
Roman Valerevich Selezne was convicted in absentia by the District Court of Washington in March of 2011 for 29 in total charges including bank fraud, hacking on protected computers, unauthorized access to Appliances and unauthorized trading.
If found guilty of all categories, the maximum penalty he faces is at least 65 years of imprisonment and payment of a fine of 2.750.000 dollars
The hacker was arrested on July 5 by the US Secret Service at Malé International Airport in the Maldives and immediately taken to a installation of the USA on the island of Guam.
Η date Seleznev's trial is set for October 6, 2014.
