Hacker asks for Ukrainian citizenship to avoid arrest in the US

Resident of Brooklyn and Odessa, Vladislav Khalupsky, submitted to the Odessa department of the State Migration Service documents for obtaining Ukrainian citizenship.

At the same time, the Ukrainian authorities are now considering extraditing him to the United States. In the States, Khalupsky is suspected of being a participant in the largest exchange scam. Malinovsky District Court of Odessa extended House arrest to Khalupsky.

US law enforcement agencies search for Khalupsky on suspicion of committing a number of crimes, including "conspiracy to commit securities fraud", "securities fraud", "illegal intrusion into the computer network," "conspiracy to launder money," and others.

If Vladislav Halupsky receives a Ukrainian passport, his extradition to the US side will fail. In Ukraine, for such crimes, you can get rid of a conditional term, and in the US it shines for 20-30 years.
February 16, 2017 an American of Ukrainian origin detained on Pushkin Street in Odessa, the SBU. The court elected him a measure of restraint in the form of house.

Halupsky was part of a criminal group that hacked the PRNewswire Association LLC, Marketwired and Business Wire PR companies' computer servers and abducted unpublished press releases from dozens of corporations such as Panera Bread Co., Hewlett Packard Co., Caterpillar Inc. And Oracle Corp.

Through a secret server, these press releases were forwarded to traders in Russia, Ukraine, France, Malta and three states of America - Georgia, New York and Pennsylvania.

Prior to the official publication of press releases, the clients of the hacker group used the insider information contained in them for the operation with securities. Hackers received a certain percentage of these transactions through a bank account in Estonia. The profit from this activity exceeded $ 25 million.