Russian bloke charged in US with running $20 million stolen card-as-a-service online souk

A Russian man was detained at Dulles airport in Washington DC on Monday and charged with running a stolen card trading ring that was responsible for $20m worth of fraud. Aleksei Burkov appeared in the Eastern Virginia US District Court on Tuesday to face charges (PDF) of access device fraud, conspiracy to commit access device …

[Anonymous Coward]

excellent support ri his customers

this was like, 10 years ago, these days the crims are like banks, shit support and all that!

[phuzz]

If he'd paid off a politician he'd be 'a pillar of the community' by now.

[WolfFan]

Wrong way around. He got prosecuted because he didn’t pay off the right politician. Quid pro quo, laddie, quid pro quo.

Exits, not, repeat, NOT, riding a pony while shirtless.

[MachDiamond]

PII

Buying and selling PII is otherwise known as Big Data. If it's a crime, Facebook, Google and a load of other Fortune 500 companies should all be in prison (ok, even more so than for the obvious reasons).

[Arthur King]

Burkov has some exceedingly interesting friends in Russia. The guy knows a lot about a lot of things which is probably why the Russian government were basically trying to blackmail the Israelies by arresting one of their own and offering them in a prisoner exchange. It'll be exceedingly interesting to see exactly what the yanks get out of him in the coming months. Unless of course he succumbs a random dose of some eastern bloc toxin that didn't come from Russia....