The Russian hacker at the centre of a massive $9.4m fraud against RBS WorldPay has avoided jail after he agreed to turn informant on his fellow cybercriminals and pay compensation to the bank. Viktor Pleshchuk, 29, of St. Petersburg, Russia, received a six year suspended sentence after agreeing to pay back 275m roubles ($8.9m …

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Friday 10th September 2010 09:09 GMT JaitcH

"Russian constitution has provisions that block extradition of its citizens"

Lucky Russians, they have more rights than the British whose government seems intent on putting them on the next flight, usually to the U.S. of A.

Does the new UK government see the irony in this? The Blair/Brown (Plunkett) regime didn't.

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1. Friday 10th September 2010 09:50 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Irony?
  
  But it isn't ironic to extradite criminals to your closest allies to stand trial for crimes committed against that country. It would be ironic if you extradited them to countries who weren't your allies, which you could conceivably argue Russia still considers the UK (which is where they'd be extradited in this case, not, in fact, to the US)
  
  So no, I expect the new regime doesn't see the irony in this, because it's not ironic.
  
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Friday 10th September 2010 09:09 GMT david wilson

Poor innocent kid

So he had no role in organising the fraud, and is just an unworldly hacker, but he can afford to pay back almost all the money which was taken?

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Friday 10th September 2010 09:11 GMT Chris Miller

"turn informant on his fellow cybercriminals"

I strongly recommend declining any applications for life insurance he may submit ...

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Friday 10th September 2010 09:50 GMT Anonymous Coward

Payment checking!

I wonder if Worldpay's IT support staff can still see the transactions happening in realtime and in plain txt - just to make sure that the systems are working!!

Anonymous - just because!!

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