Accused Russian hacker faces new charges in the US

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http://rapsinews.com/judicial_news/20141010/272331353.html

Russian Legal Information Agency
10/10/2014

MOSCOW, October 10 (RAPSI) - An additional 11 cyber fraud charges will be 
brought against Russian national Roman Seleznev on October 16 in Seattle, 
spokeswoman for Washington’s Western District attorney Emily Langley told 
RIA Novosti on Friday.

A pretrial hearing on Seleznev’s case is scheduled for November 3.

Langley could not say how the additional charges might influence the 
sentence if Seleznev is found guilty. "The potential prison term is 
impacted by a number of things," she explained. " the number of counts or 
the maximum penalties they carry. The characteristics of the crime and of 
the individual defendant are factors considered by the judge at 
sentencing." She added that at this point Seleznev has not been convicted 
of anything so it is premature to make assumptions about the sentence.

An additional 11 counts were added to the previous 29 counts, the US 
Department of Justice announced yesterday.

Moscow-born Roman Seleznev, 30, the son of Liberal Democratic Party State 
Duma lawmaker Valery Seleznev, has been charged with hacking into retail 
cash register systems to install malicious software to steal credit card 
numbers, and with operating servers and international carding forum 
websites to facilitate the theft and sale of stolen credit card data. He 
was arrested in the Maldive Islands and taken to Guam, an unincorporated 
US territory in the western Pacific.

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