The case against Russian citizen Roman Seleznev, who is currently in jail on charges of Seattle kibermoshennichestve, supplemented with 11 points. This is stated in the press service of the Ministry of Justice of the United States.
So, against Selezneva indicted a total of 40 points. Thus, according to investigators, 30-year-old Seleznev, also known as «Track2», involved in the theft and sale of 2 million credit card numbers.
«Charges describe in detail the criminal scheme, which worked until the detention Selezneva July. As described in the indictment, the government (USA) intends to prove at the trial that Seleznev has been the market leader in stolen credit card numbers, and even had a website with guidelines for their use, “- said Acting Attorney for the Western District of Washington Annette Hayes.
In addition to the 11 counts of fraud, Seleznev also charged with 9 points on the deliberate breaking of personal computers, nine items of illegally obtaining information from the PC, nine points of possession of unauthorized access devices to the PC, as well as two points of identity theft.
The closest trial of Selezneva be held on November 3. The new charges will be brought against him next week.
Roman Seleznev, the son of a State Duma deputy Valery Seleznev, was detained by security services in the Maldives and the United States brought on the American island of Guam in the Pacific, and then to Seattle. The charges were brought against him in the states of Washington and Colorado. He is accused of stealing credit card data and personal information of Americans. August 16 the court ruled that the Selezneva custody prior to sentencing in the case.
October 3, prosecutors demanded a tougher regime of detention Russians detained. Prison officials argued, one of the lawyers Selezneva illegally carried his client mobile phone and gave him the opportunity to talk to someone in Russian, which is prohibited by the rules. Defenders Selezneva, in turn, denied these allegations.
Earlier Seattle District Court hearing the case Selezneva, suspended from participation in the process of his two lawyers. The pretext for this decision was that the law firm “Fox Rothschild”, which includes representatives of the defendant, at the same time protect the interests of one of the alleged victims in this case – the company “Z-pizza.” The judge saw this as a conflict of interest.
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