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 State Duma Liberal Democratic political party, and is accused of breaching the point-of-sale systems of retail companies of USA. He traded the information he stole through a forum he controlled.
At this time, there is no information about where he stole them from credit cards and whether they were to be sold to cybercriminals through underground forums.
In accordance with Q13 FOX, the defendant's lawyers requested that Seleznev be placed under house arrest in a furnished apartment of Seattle, on a million dollar bond.
However, US judge James P. Donohue denied the warranty and said Seleznev was dangerous to flee, as he had no connection with 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 U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in March 2011 on a total of 29 counts that included bank scams, hacking on protected computers, unauthorized access to devices and unauthorized marketing.
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 Maldives and was immediately taken to a US facility on Guam Island.
The date of the Seleznev trial is set at 6 October 2014.
