Latvian malware author may be extradited to U.S.

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A Latvian programmer that a trojan would have developed that are used by millions of euros from bank accounts were seized, to the United States to be extradited. That the European Court has recently decided.

According to the lawyers of the Note, Denniss Čalovskis, would the extradition to the United States in violation of the European convention of human rights. Therefore, they stepped to the European Court for Human Rights. The judges, however, do not Čalovskis and his lawyers disagree: according to them, there is no reason to think that the Note in the United States is poor would be treated.

The programmer would be responsible for a trojan horse that was used to money, spoil to users of internet banking. The makers of the malware would be millions of euros and dollars in European and American bank customers have captured. Čalovskis was at the end of 2012 arrested. Earlier, the Latvian minister of Foreign Affairs is still against the extradition because of the high imprisonment that Čalovskis could get: in the United States, he can, dozens of years behind bars disappear.

Moreover, at the detention of Čalovskis mistakes made. It took too long before an independent court considered whether he served in remand was, that his right to liberty and security would be violated. He was also in a metal cage during a hearing in the courtroom, which, according to the Mensenrechtenhof a derogatory punishment.

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