Justice Department Extradites Kremlin-Linked Hacker Accused of Stealing Earnings Information

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The U.S. Justice Department announced it had extradited from Switzerland a Kremlin-linked Russian national, Vladislav Klyushin, on charges that he participated in a scheme to hack and steal corporate earnings information about Tesla Inc., Roku Inc., and others, earning tens of millions of dollars in illegal profits.

Klyushin, also known as “Vladislav Kliushin,” was arrested in Sion, Switzerland on March 21, 2021, and was extradited to the United States on December 18.  Klyushin was charged alongside four other Russian nationals, Ivan Ermakov, Nikolai Rumiantcev, Mikhail Vladimirovich Irzak, and Igor Sergeevich Sladkov, who remain at large. Ermakov, a former member of Russia’s military intelligence agency, was previously and separately charged with hacking crimes in 2018 in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. (Aruna Viswanatha and Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal)

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