One of the key suspects in the enormous JPMorgan Chase hack
in 2014, a Russian hacker Andrei Tyurin, is all set to plead next week in New
York.
He was one of the several people charged for the case in
2015, and was on the loose until Georgian officials caught hold of him a year
ago. Gery Shalon, the supposed instigator of the conspiracy, was arrested in
Israel in 2015 and handed over to the US as he has allegedly been in touch with
American authorities.
During Tyurin's first New York court appearance; it was
proposed that his associations in the criminal world may enable specialists to
examine the Russian endeavours to disrupt the 2016 US presidential election
through cyber-attacks and hacking.
Tyurin was first produced in a US court in September the
previous year after he was handed over from the Republic of Georgia and he had
pleaded not guilty to charges including hacking, wire fraud, identity theft and
conspiracy.
From that point forward, various hearings for his situation
have been cancelled as prosecutors and defence attorneys worked through for an
agreement and just last week, the Manhattan US attorney's office endeavoured
to solidify his New York case with one in Atlanta, in which he is one of the
few accused for hacking E*Trade.
