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Reuters: Russian hacker wanted by US tells court he worked for Putin’s party

Published Sept. 28, 2017 at 8:49 pm

A picture taken on Oct. 17, 2016 shows an employee typing on a computer keyboard at the headquarters of Internet security giant Kaspersky in Moscow.

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A Russian hacker arrested in Spain on a U.S. warrant said on September 28 he previously worked for President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party and feared he would be tortured and killed if extradited, RIA news agency reported.

Peter Levashov was arrested while on holiday in Barcelona in April. U.S. prosecutors later charged him with hacking offences, accusing him of operating a network of tens of thousands of infected computers used by cyber criminals.