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Vladislav Klyushin's connections to the Kremlin have long intrigued US authorities Keystone / Maxim Shipenkov
A wealthy Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin faces trial on Monday on US charges that he participated in a vast scheme that generated tens of millions of dollars in illegal trading profits using corporate information stolen through hacking.
This content was published on January 30, 2023 - 14:18 January 30, 2023 - 14:18 Reuters/ts Jury selection is scheduled to begin in federal court in Boston in the case of Vladislav Klyushin, 42, who before his arrest in switzerland in 2021 owned a Moscow-based information technology company with ties to the Russian government.
The three-week trial comes at a low point in US-Russia relations following Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine last year. And while the case against Klyushin, who has pleaded not guilty, predates the war, his connections to the Kremlin have long intrigued US authorities.
Prosecutors say Klyushin's company, M-13, not only did work for Putin's administration but also employed a former Russian military intelligence officer wanted by the US government for his alleged involvement in hacking schemes aimed at interfering in the 2016 US presidential election.
His lawyer in the Swiss extradition proceedings, Oliver Ciric, has said the real reason Klyushin was sought was his Russian government ties and that US and British intelligence agencies earlier tried to recruit him.
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