Aleksei Burkov was extradited from Israel to the US in 2019.
Hackread.com previously reported about a Russian computer hacker and cyber criminal Aleksei Burkov who was arrested for facilitating credit card fraud worth $20 million and running a well-organized clearinghouse to provide a safe environment for international cybercriminals to operate.
Charges against Burkov were filed in 2015, and he was arrested in Israel the same year. The scammer was extradited to the US after spending several years in jail while the Russian government resisted his extradition. However, Burkov filed an extradition request and was sent to the US in November 2019.
We have been following this case ever since, and as per the latest reports, the 30-year old scammer has been sentenced [108 pages judgment in PDF] to nine years in prison including the time he’s already served. This means the Burkov will spend around four and a half years more in prison.
Burkov pleaded guilty to wire and access device fraud, identity theft, money laundering, and conspiring to commit computer invasion on January 23rd, 2020.
He admitted running two cybercriminal web forums, one of which he used to facilitate the $20m credit card fraud and the second one served as an ‘invite-only’ forum for ‘elite cybercriminals’ where they could share stolen data and access hacking resources.
Prosecutors claim that Burkov from St. Petersburg, Russia, carved a new niche in cybercrime domain through his Direct Conne ..
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