 Link LoggerPremium,MVM
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| One example of why Russia is on my safe to hack from list quote:
A Russian computer hacker who orchestrated a $10 million international credit card fraud will avoid jail and serve only a five-year suspended sentence.
Yevgeny Anikin, 27, was part of a cybercriminal ring that in 2008 hacked into the electronic payment service RBS WorldPay and rigged it to raise customers’ maximum withdrawal limit. Using cloned debit cards, Anikin and his team — in one 12-hour stint — stole $10 million from more than 2,100 ATMs in 280 cities worldwide, according to the security firm Sophos.
Anikin bought two apartments in Russia and a luxury car with the stolen money. He has been under house arrest since 2009.
In court yesterday Monday, Anikin pleaded guilty to the cybercrime and said he had already started to pay back the fraudulent funds.
“I want to say that I repent and fully admit my guilt,” Anikin told the court according to a report from RIA Novosti, Russia's state news agency.
»www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41474954/ns···ecurity/
So does this sound like suitable consequences? Sound like Russia?
Blake
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| It doesn't sound like Russia to me, but I grew up on the old Russia, where even trivial crimes led to dire consequences.
Since Anikin claims he's already started to pay back the funds, I wonder if the government gave him a job? |
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RBS RBN WorldPay
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 BlackbirdBuilt for SpeedPremium
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said by goalieskates:It doesn't sound like Russia to me, but I grew up on the old Russia, where even trivial crimes led to dire consequences ... Well... the Russia I remember (during at least the last 1/2 of its Soviet incarnation) was also witness to the occasional "show" trial, chest-thumping "mea culpa" confessions, heavy sentences (with matching heavy suspensions), and stunning "rehabilitations" after brief time intervals sitting "in stir" - IF you were one of the ones "well-connected" to the then-current elite and not perceived as a direct threat to their power. Otherwise, it was usually off to the Gulag for the "common" criminals, bullets to the head being reserved mostly for "political" criminals. But even in the Gulag, the common criminals were treated less harshly than political prisoners, often being given trusty privileges over the other inmates until their often "early" releases (ref: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn).
This has such a similar, unmistakable smell to it that it's like a time warp... and it makes me suspect there is similar "connectedness" to high places. It's all as traditionally Russian as vodka.
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| said by Blackbird:This has such a similar, unmistakable smell to it that it's like a time warp... and it makes me suspect there is similar "connectedness" to high places. It's all as traditionally Russian as vodka.
I suspect that Yevgeny Anikin had to have some legal reasons to force the issue in a Russian court.
He may have had to pay up to get his day in court. |
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 Name GamePremium
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They stole the money from the former Royal Bank of Scotland division.
Aware that he was likely to be convicted, Anikin put on an emotional performance for the court in his closing address, Komsomolskaya Pravda reported.
“I repent… It seems to me that I have already been punished enough. When my wife was pregnant I was in pre-trial detention. I spent almost a year there. For me this whole story has served as a big lesson in life, so I ask for leniency,” he said.
“It is not only the fate of me that is in the balance, but also the fate of my child, who is not yet one year old…I admit my guilt in full.”
The court duly convicted him, but his five-year jail term was commuted to three years probation with no fine.
The judge took into account his dependant child and the fact that he had signed a pre-trial cooperation agreement and had actively participated in concluding the investigation, Interfax reported.
»themoscownews.com/russia/2011020···087.html
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nonymousPremium
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He got caught on one thing. How many more was and is he doing. Did he pay off someone? Payoffs and connections happen in any country. |
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