U.S. Department of Justice Hopes Arested Kremlin Insider May Know Russian Cyber Secrets

Acting U.S. Attorney Mendell speaks to reporters in Boston (Brian Snyder / Reuters)  

Bloomberg: US catches Kremlin insider who may have secrets of 2016 hack  

Klyushin’s cybersecurity work and Kremlin ties could make him useful source of information 

Washington: In the days before Christmas, US officials in Boston unveiled insider trading charges against a Russian tech tycoon they had been pursuing for months. They accused Vladislav Klyushin, who’d been extradited from Switzerland on Dec. 18, of illegally making tens of millions of dollars trading on hacked corporate-earnings information. 

Yet as authorities laid out their securities fraud case, a striking portrait of the detainee emerged: Klyushin was not only an accused insider trader, but a Kremlin insider. He ran an information technology company that works with the Russian government’s top echelons. Just 18 months earlier, Klyushin received a medal of honour from Russian President Vladimir Putin. The US had, in its custody, the highest-level Kremlin insider handed to US law enforcement in recent memory.  

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WNU Editor: This Russian businessman's lawyer says his client has been approached in the past by U.S. and British intelligence agencies to provide intel on Russian cyber efforts .... Russian charged by U.S. with insider trading had spurned approaches by U.S., British spies, says lawyer (NBC).

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