Masked cops armed with automatic weapons swooped on Medvedev's Bangkok condo on Feb 2, making the arrest before US justice officials indicted other alleged members of the ring.
BANGKOK: A Russian man accused of co-running a global cybercrime network shuttered in a US-led crackdown this week has been arrested in Bangkok and will face extradition, Thai police said.
Sergey Medvedev, 31, is accused of co-founding the “Infraud Organisation,” an online network that stole and sold credit card and other personal identity data, causing US$530mil (RM2.08bil) in losses, according to US authorities.
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