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Defendant Charged In Massive Internet Fraud Scheme That Infected Millions Of Computers Worldwide Extradited From Estonia To The Southern District Of New York

United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York, October 31, 2014. DNSChanger / Operation Ghost Click: the extradition of Vladimir Tsastsin from Estonia to the Southern District of New York to face computer intrusion, wire fraud and money laundering charges.

Source type
Prosecutor release
Published
October 31, 2014
Research grade
P1
Used in entries
3

Bibliographic record

Publisher
United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York
Published
October 31, 2014
Source type
Prosecutor release
Research grade
Source grade P1
Language
English
Official record
Official publication
Address
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/defendant-charged-massive-internet-fraud-scheme-infected-millions-computers-worldwide
What it supports
DNSChanger / Operation Ghost Click: the extradition of Vladimir Tsastsin from Estonia to the Southern District of New York to face computer intrusion, wire fraud and money laundering charges
Dataset id
src_usao_sdny_tsastsin_extradited_2014

Research notes

  • Retrieved through the justice.gov press-release JSON API because justice.gov serves an Akamai bot interstitial to automated fetchers.
  • The release names the six other charged defendants: Timur Gerassimenko, Dmitri Jegorov, Valeri Aleksejev, Konstantin Poltev, Andrey Taame and Anton Ivanov.

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