US citizen Vladislav Khalupsky, who is wanted by US authorities for theft and subsequent sale of 150 thousand. Press releases of companies, applied for Ukrainian citizenship. This is stated in the definition of the Malinovsky district court of Odessa.

As previously reported, B. Khalupsky together with associates are suspected of stealing and trading of confidential corporate information, which allowed them to earn over $ 100 million. It was about attacks on the server PR Newswire, BusinessWire and Marketwired, where the data intended for publication. Hacking occurred in the interval between the download of press releases on the servers of information companies and their publication. Business information was passed on to traders who conducted their trading operations. The profit from similar actions has made 25 million dollars. Part of the amount was transferred to the hackers in their bank account in Estonia.

Khalupsky allegedly coordinated the distribution of information received by hackers about securities between traders.

As reported by the American media with reference to the investigation, hackers abducted releases of such companies as Panera Bread Co. , Hewlett Packard Co. , Caterpillar Inc. And Oracle Corp. , Using proxy servers to disguise their IP-addresses. Since February 2010, attackers have abducted about 150 thousand. Press releases.

Last year, the District Court of the Eastern District of New York issued an indictment by which B. Khalupsky and his accomplices are accused of the following crimes: conspiracy to commit fraud using electronic means of communication, securities fraud, illegal intrusion to PR Newswire networks, Marquis, conspiracy to launder funds. In October 2016 g. An arrest warrant was issued.

Khalupsky detained in Odessa in mid-February this year. The court placed him under night house arrest. In early May, the regional prosecutor's office completed an extradition check and found no circumstances that could prevent the extradition of the hacker to the American authorities. At the same time, the findings of the audit indicate that in the case of receiving B, Khalupsky citizenship of Ukraine, his extradition will be impossible. Two weeks after the end of the audit, on May 18, the hacker applied to the Odessa Migration Service for obtaining citizenship.

The definition states that at the moment the GPU has not yet made a decision on the extradition of B. Khalupsky to the US authorities.

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Vladislav Halupsky was born in Odessa, worked as a consultant at Dolphin Online Trading LLC (co-founded by the said company between 2004 and 2016). In 1989 he left for the United States, where, as he himself said, impressed by the movie "Wall Street" dreamed of trading in securities. As a result, settled down in Manhattan real estate agent, then, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, he came to Moscow and opened his own trading business there. In 1998 he returned to America, where he was re-qualified as a trader.