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26-08-2010, 11:21 AM
In November, 2009, US authorities identified BadB, one of the internet’s most ingenious financial criminals, as 27-year-old Moscow resident Vladislav Horohorin. He was recently arrested in France. But why did Russian authorities let him operate freely in the meantime? The New York Times sketches out a few popular theories among security experts as to why, generally, Russia has been lax with its cyber-policing. In Horohorin’s case, it’s possible that Russian police never got our memo: Olga K. Shklyarova, spokeswoman for the Russian bureau of Interpol, said no American law enforcement agency had requested Mr. Horohorin’s arrest in her country. “We never received such a request,” she said by telephone. If we had intended to let them know that this guy was one of the world’s most prolific cyber criminals and somehow the message got lost in translation, that’s worrisome for a whole different host of reasons.

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