FBI Desperate for a Russian
Connection to DNC Hacking Offers to Purchase One
FBI Desperate for a Russian
Connection to DNC Hacking Offers to Purchase One
US
Officials Allegedly Asked Russian Guy to Confess to DNC Hacks in Exchange for
Delicious US Dollars
Yevgeny
Nikulin claims he was offered a pleasant life in America if he pretended
that he hacked the DNC
Sun,
Jun 4, 2017
Yevgeny
Nikulin
File
this one under: What the hell is going on?
Russian
national Yevgeniy Nikulin was arrested in October, 2015, by Czech
authorities in cooperation with the FBI, and charged with stealing
information from LinkedIn, Dropbox and other companies.
He's
currently sitting in a prison cell in Prague, awaiting his fate.
The
United States wants to extradite him—but so does Russia. The Russians want
him for a relatively minor crime—the theft of $3,450 from a
Moscow resident.
Earlier
this week the Prague Municipal Court ruled that Nikulin could face
extradition to either the US or Russia, but Nikulin has appealed the
ruling because he really, really doesn't want to be sent to the United
States.
Apparently
the US government has plans for
him:
Nikulin's
defense lawyers have said the U.S. charges were based on one FBI agent, and
suggested the U.S. was seeking him for political reasons — to use him
as a pawn in the investigation into alleged Russian hacking in the U.S.
election.
He
claimed in the courtroom that he was twice approached by U.S. authorities — in
November and in February — in the absence of his previous lawyer. He said they
urged him to falsely testify that he was cooperating in the hacking attack on
the Democratic National Committee ordered by Russian authorities. He said U.S.
authorities would, in exchange, give him money and a life in the United States.
"I
rejected doing it," Nikulin said.
Let's
be honest: All parties involved have good reasons to lie about this
case. Nikulin obviously doesn't want to be shipped to the
US—regardless of the crimes he's been accused of—and we imagine he has nothing
to lose by claiming that the extradition request is politically motivated.
But
was he really offered a deal by the feds if he confessed to hacking the DNC? We
wouldn't be surprised. And the FBI has a long track record of using these kind
of tactics to tie up loose ends.
We
guess the moral of this story is: The DNC hacking allegations have become so
absurd that they've even found their way into the extradition case of a
29-year-old trapped in Prague.
The
other moral of this story: Never cut deals with the FBI.
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