Two men accused of participating in the multimillion-dollar Methbot digital-advertising fraud scheme are scheduled to plead guilty in the coming days, according to court filings from the Eastern District of New York.
Sergey Ovysannikov and Yevgeniy Timchenko, both originally from Kazakhstan, are scheduled to appear in a federal courtroom in Brooklyn on Sept. 24 and Sept. 25, respectively, to enter plea agreements before Judge Steven M. Gold. Both men initially pleaded not guilty after they were extradited to the U.S. earlier this year.
A third man, Methbot’s alleged ringleader, Aleksandr Zhukov, has promised to fight the charges against him. Prosecutors say the operation relied on cybercriminal techniques to defraud companies out of roughly $29 million.
Few details of the plea agreements were immediately available. Arkady Bukh, defense counsel for Ovysannikov, declined to say to which counts his client intends to plead guilty. Attorneys for Timchenko did not respond Friday to phone calls seeking comment.
“They prohibited lawyers from actually discussing the specific details,” Bukh said. “I think I think it was a mistake that they filed it.”
The U.S. Department of Justice linked both men to the Methbot ad fraud operation, also known as 3ve, which relied on a botnet-based scheme to artificially inflate web traffic to fraudulent websites. By selling the ad space to real marketing firms, and making website visitors appear to be real humans, sca ..
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