Two Expelled Russian Diplomats Were On FBI Most Wanted List

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

On Thursday, President Barack Obama announced that he is taking actions against Russia for hacking committed against political organizations prior to the U.S. election in November, as well as other alleged actions against American diplomats. As part of this, the State Department is expelling 35 Russian diplomats, and released the names of those who are getting the boot.

Among them are two men who were already on the FBI’s Most Wanted list. Evgeniy Bogachev is wanted for a number of charges, including conspiracy, bank fraud, wire fraud, computer fraud, money laundering, and identity theft. He was indicted under an online nickname in 2012, and again under his real name in 2014There is a reward of up to $3 million for information leading to his arrest.

Alexsey Belan is wanted for computer intrusion, aggravated identity theft, and fraud in connection with a computer. Federal warrants were issued for him in June 2012 and September 2013, and the FBI is offering up to $100,000 for information leading to his arrest.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/two-expelled-russian-diplomats-were-on-fbi-most-wanted-list/ar-BBxHnos?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp

[Kingofalldems]

1. But it's political!--says Trump and his trolls.

[moondust]

2. So they can't hold Cabinet positions?

[gratuitous]

3. FBI Director Comey has been kind of busy lately

So, you know, he didn't have time to apprehend Russians on his own most wanted list. Priorities, folks.

[cwydro]

4. Our FBI couldn't find a octupus in a school of sea horses.

[packman]

5. I don't understand - "Diplomats??"

I thought they were immune from prosecution and the most we could do is throw them out of the country. We can arrest them?

[FarCenter]

6. Fake new story - they are not diplomats

His FBI "most wanted" page shows a grinning, shaven-headed figure, accused of a string of very grand thefts across America. With a total haul estimated at more than $100 million, and tricks that ran rings around the police, the case against Evgeniy Bogachev could form yet another sequel to the Oceans 11 heist movies.

But the man named last week as the biggest new threat to America's banking system has never needed a gun, nor is he even thought to have set foot in the United States. Instead, under the code name "Lucky 12345", he carried out his entire operation via strokes of a keyboard from his house in Russia's Black Sea coast, masterminding what is thought to be the most sophisticated cybercrime network the world has ever seen.

Using so-called "malware" – malicious software that "enslaves" computers and steals user names and passwords, the 30-year-old and his gang allegedly hacked into hundreds of thousands of bank accounts, emptying up to $7 million at a time from unsuspecting firms across America. Most were unaware that the attacks, from a program called GameOver Zeus, or GOZ, had even happened.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/10883333/Russian-hacker-wanted-by-US-hailed-as-hero-at-home.html