Russian accused of cybercrimes was deported from the USA to Russia

"He is accused of involvement in the manufacture and sale of counterfeit bank cards and trade in confidential data of clients of credit and financial institutions," TASS quotes the words of the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Irina Volk.

According to her, Burkov was engaged in illegal activities from 2008 to 2015.

In 2017, he was charged in absentia under articles on theft, illegal disclosure of secret information and illegal circulation of means of payment (Article 158 of the Criminal Code of Russia, Article 187 of the Criminal Code of Russia and Article 273 of the Criminal Code of Russia -

).

The man was put on the wanted list through Interpol channels.

“In 2015, local police detained Burkov in Israel.

By the decision of the Israeli Supreme Court in 2019, he was extradited to the United States ... Last year, the Eastern District Court of Virginia found the Russian guilty and sentenced him to nine years in prison, "Volk said.

Last year, ex-adviser to the head of the Federal Agency for Fisheries Yuri Khokhlov, accused of large-scale fraud, was extradited to Russia from the Republic of Cyprus.