The Latest: Prague appeals court allows extradition to US

[pnwmom]

Source: SF Chronicle

A Prague appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that a Russian man who faces charges of hacking computers at American companies can be extradited to the United States.

Czech authorities arrested Yevgeniy Nikulin in Prague in cooperation with the FBI in October last year. He is accused by U.S. prosecutors of penetrating computers at Silicon Valley firms including LinkedIn and Dropbox in 2012.

Moscow also wants him extradited on a separate charge of internet theft in 2009.

Prague's Municipal Court ruled in May that both extradition requests meet the necessary legal conditions.

Read more: http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/crime/article/The-Latest-Prague-appeals-court-allows-12380930.php

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Nikulin has been officially accused of large scale hacking in the US of Linked In and other sites, but in a letter after he was picked up in Prague he claims the FBI was questioning him about the DNC hacking -- and says he had nothing to do with that.

Since Russia immediately afterwards filed to extradite him on a minor crime, and both extraditions have now been ruled legal, the Justice Minister will decide who will be extradited.

The article doesn't say when the decision will be made.

By way of background, here is something from last May:


https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/30/suspected-russian-hacker-step-closer-to-us-extradition-yevgeniy-nikulin

The affidavit relates solely to the hacking of LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring in 2012, and does not mention any election hacking.

However, Nikulin wrote in a letter from prison that Miller had interrogated him in Prague on 7 February and raised the election hacking. Excerpts of the letter were provided to the Guardian by Nikulin’s lawyers, but there is no way of substantiating the claims he made.

Nikulin claimed Miller demanded he admit to hacking the DNC servers as part of what the FBI is said to have claimed was a nefarious plot ultimately ordered by Trump, and promised him good treatment in the US if he cooperated. Nikulin wrote that he rejected the offer.

[gordianot]

1. Wonder what the odds this character becomes a corpse in the near future?

[underpants]

2. Still has to go through the Justice Minister

Thanks. I've been looking for the news on this after your thread last night.

[MBS]

3. The Justice Minister part makes me nervous.

The current Justice Minister, Robert Pelikan, is a member of the same party of the new Trump-like Prime Minister, Babis, and the new cabinet will be appointed Dec 15 by the pro-Putin Czech president Zeman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pelikán

[pnwmom]

6. That's bad news! But thanks.

[padah513]

4. He should be expedited to the country with the more serious claim

But if I were him I know where I'd want to go. He won't get disappeared here.

[marylandblue]

5. He won't be disappeared there, he'll be given a good job in the Russian troll factory