Finland extradites Russian computer fraud suspect to U.S.

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Technology | Fri Jan 8, 2016 11:40am EST

Finland extradites Russian computer fraud suspect to U.S.

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Finland said on Friday it would extradite a Russian citizen accused of computer fraud and abuse to the United States for trial.

Finnish authorities detained Maxim Senakh in August at the request of U.S. federal authorities. Russia says his detention was illegal.

Senakh has been accused in the state of Minnesota of infecting computer servers with malware, resulting in criminal gains worth millions of dollars.

Russia's foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday that it hoped its Nordic neighbor would take its "position into account" and described the arrest as "an abuse of the law in violation of internationally accepted procedural norms".

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-finland-extradition-idUSKBN0UM0ZM20160108

[MADem]

1. Wow--that threat against Finland wasn't even implied, was it?

Way to be the bully on the block, Russia!

[Proserpina]

2. Finland, playing Igor to the US Dr. Frankenstein

and they own the part!