Deputy Prosecutor of Kazakhstan Aset Chindaliev said that the extradition of Russian hacker Nikita Kislitsyn could take more than a year. This was reported by Kazakh source orda.kz.
According to Chindaliev, the check before extradition lasts up to a year. It involves examining all available arguments of the parties regarding the extradition of a person.
Kislitsyn was detained at Almaty airport on June 22. In Russia, he is accused of illegal access to legally protected computer information and extortion by prior conspiracy by a group of individuals. Russian law enforcement agencies put the hacker on the federal wanted list. However, he was detained at the request of the United States, which suspected Kislitsyn of hacking the Formspring social network in 2012 and stealing its users’ data.
The Kazakhstan Prosecutor General’s Office is currently reviewing both requests received. Previously, the ministry had stated that the country’s legislation does not provide for any priority regarding the timing of receipt of requests. In return, the detainee can apply for asylum in Kazakhstan.
At FACCT, Kislitsyn serves as head of the department for developing solutions for the comprehensive fight against complex cyber attacks. He was previously editor-in-chief of Hacker magazine.
Artem Oganov, formerly Consul-Counselor of the Russian Consulate in Almaty statedHe said that the statute of limitations has already expired for the crime that the USA blamed on the head of the FACCT (formerly Group-IB) department, Nikita Kislitsyn, who was detained in Almaty upon his own requests.
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Source: Gazeta
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