Latvia still will give the United States a citizen involved in the creation of Gozi
The Latvian authorities today decided to extradite its citizens to the United States by Dennis Kalovskisa which States as one of the creators of the virus Gozi and organizer of the criminal scheme for stealing personal data from millions of computers around the world. In the U.S., saying that Kalovskis in collaboration with a group of other hackers involved in the theft of millions of dollars from online banking. Today Latvian Cabinet voted at the rate of 7:5 for the issuance of a hacker in the U.S., where he faces more than 60 years in prison for financial fraud. Earlier, the Latvian government strongly opposed the extradition proceedings.
Thus, the Latvian court has twice refused to extradite, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs supported this position. In a statement, the Minister of Foreign Affairs said that the United States was given to the author Gozi too severe punishment for the crime of which he had already confessed and repented. launched a campaign in the U.S. to extradite two of the three authors Gozi shortly after the trio publicly to confess to the crime and reported that their development could infect more than a million computers around the world, and stole a large amount of data about online banking details. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said that the three founders Gozi essentially no different from those who take the knife and goes on the road to take a purse from a respectable man.
"This is a common criminal gang, but they are to carry out their ideas with modern technology," - said Bharara. in the United States have also said that a citizen of Romania Mihai Paunesku and Russian Nikita Kuzmin are complicit in the development Gozi. Kuzmin is already in U.S. custody, he was arrested in May 2011 (in another case).
The process of extradition Paunesku is also close to a head. Recently the government of the country was handed over to the subscription list, where more than 2,000 people have signed a petition calling on him not to give a hacker Washington. "Issuance of a Latvian citizen United States, a country where there is still a death penalty, not only will strengthen the Latvian society and confidence in the judicial system, but, on the contrary, will be a disgrace for our country. If Latvia will give Kalovskisa the U.S., it would mean that it is not is a home and a haven for its citizens "- the organizers of the action.
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