Federal Court for the Eastern District of Michigan & nbsp; sentenced Russian citizen Alexander Grichishkin, who pleaded guilty to cybercrime offenses, to five years in prison, TASS reports.
60 months in prison, & # 39; & # 39; the court indicated and added that after the expiration of the sentence, the Russian will be under the control of the US authorities for a year.
Alexander Grichishkin was arrested in the United States in February of last year. According to US law enforcement, he is one of the leaders of the hacker group that provided the 'bulletproof'. accommodation.
The service aided cybercriminals, without the risk of being blocked, to send malware to carry out attacks on the computer networks of financial institutions and individuals in the United States.
In March of this year, Grichishkin struck a deal with the investigation. In addition, the defendants in this case are Russian citizen Andrei Skvortsov, Lithuanian native Alexander Skorodumov and Estonian citizen Pavel Stassi.
Note that in October a US court sentenced Stassi and Skorodumov to two and four years in prison, respectively. They are being held in a cybercrime case as accomplices of Grichishkin and Skvortsov.
At the end of November, the US Department of Justice indicted Russian citizen Vladimir Dunaev for alleged involvement in a transnational cybercriminal organization. He faces up to 60 years in prison.