A US court on Thursday, February 11, sentenced a Ukrainian citizen to seven years and three months in prison for online fraud, the press service of the US Department of Justice reported.
It is clarified that the 38-year-old native of Odessa, Alexander Musienko, in 2018 was detained at the request of the United States in South Korea, the next year Seoul extradited the suspect to the United States. Later, the Ukrainian pleaded guilty before the court.
According to the investigation, in 2009-2012, the Odessa citizen, together with a group of hackers from Eastern Europe, “earned” more than three million dollars by fraudulent means. The report of the American Ministry of Justice says that Musienko, with the help of fraudulent schemes, legalized in the US the money stolen by his European accomplices from the bank accounts of American companies, TASS reports.
