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Russian Cybercriminal Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Digital Advertising Fraud Scheme

United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, November 10, 2021. Aleksandr Zhukov's 10-year sentence and $3,827,493 forfeiture order before U.S. District Judge Eric R. Komitee; his 2018 arrest in Bulgaria, 2019 extradition, and May 2021 jury conviction on wire fraud conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering conspiracy and money laundering.

Source type
Prosecutor release
Published
November 10, 2021
Research grade
P1
Used in entries
2

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Publisher
United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York
Published
November 10, 2021
Source type
Prosecutor release
Research grade
Source grade P1
Language
English
Official record
Official publication
Address
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/russian-cybercriminal-sentenced-10-years-prison-digital-advertising-fraud-scheme
What it supports
Aleksandr Zhukov's 10-year sentence and $3,827,493 forfeiture order before U.S. District Judge Eric R. Komitee; his 2018 arrest in Bulgaria, 2019 extradition, and May 2021 jury conviction on wire fraud conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering conspiracy and money laundering
Dataset id
src_doj_3ve_zhukov_sentencing_2021

Research notes

  • Archived capture of 2024-01-16 read on 2026-08-23; header reads 'Wednesday, November 10, 2021'.
  • The intermediate conviction is covered by a separate EDNY release, 'Russian Cybercriminal Convicted of Defrauding American Companies of Millions of Dollars Through Digital Advertising Scheme', 2021-05-28, which is not yet in the dataset either.

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