Oh no I didn't, says disgraced ex-Kaspersky guy
An accused Russian hacker has claimed Kaspersky's former head of investigations blackmailed him into stealing approximately £150,000 from local banks.
Dmitry Popelysh is on trial in Moscow over allegations that he helped pinch more than 12 million roubles from financial institutions including Sberbank and VTB. But he told the court that one-time Kaspersky staffer Ruslan Stoyanov made him do it.
"Popelysh claims that the evidence in his case was fabricated, and that Ruslan Stoyanov, the former head of the Kaspersky Lab's computer incident investigation department, forced him to break into [the bank accounts]," reported local news agency RBC today. Popelysh made his courtroom statement on 5 September.
In February, former police major Stoyanov was disgraced kaspersky bloke russian court hacking charges
