Konstantin Klyushin Biography

The site “M” says that the decisions of the company are used by the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, the Government of the Russian Federation and federal departments. According to the Swiss website, Gotham City, which is engaged in the analysis of information from the justice bodies, with reference to the materials of the Federal Criminal Court and the Supreme Court of Switzerland, Klyushin was taken into custody back in March.

He was detained during his family vacation at a ski resort. A source of Medusa, close to M, also confirmed the arrest of a Russian businessman, and in the company itself refrained from commenting at the request of the publication. The owner of the Russian IT solutions for the Kremlin, according to the Swiss newspaper Le Temps, was arrested, by June 9, Vladislav Klyushin was under the arrest of Sion's insulator and expects possible extradition in the United States on charges of insider trade for tens of millions of dollars.

The details of the case are not disclosed. He appealed on May 20, but the court rejected it. In addition to the company M, Vladislav Klyushin was also associated with the popular political telegram channel "Nezigar": this was written, in particular, the publication "Project". Klyushin filed a lawsuit against the authors of the article and lost in the first instance, but then the Moscow City Court made the opposite decision, and the “project” had to release a refutation.

Telegram “Nezigar” channel is conducted anonymously and supplies political insides. On the channel of subscribers by June 9, among which are officials of the highest ranks. The court noted the lack of reason to question the independence of the US Judicial system and indicated sufficient grounds for the judicial persecution of a Russian entrepreneur who founded the M13 company, which, among other things, developed the Katyusha media monitoring system for the Kremlin administration.

The court rejected the Russian argument that he was a victim of the American political campaign designed to "catch him on fabricated accusations of insider trade." The Switzerland court allowed the United States of the Creator of the IT system of monitoring for the Kremlin Vladislav Klyushin on December 13, lawyers arrested in Switzerland at the request of the United States Vladislav Klyushin filed a cassation appeal against the verdict of the Swiss Federal Criminal Court, confirmed the decision to issue a Russian citizen in the United States.

In August, the Federal Directorate of Justice refused the request of Russia's extradition to the country. The motive for the refusal was that the ones set forth in the Russian request for the issuance of the act are not punishable in Switzerland. According to the British newspaper The Times, the United States is sure that Klyushin is involved in an attempt to intervene in the presidential election of the year.

The entrepreneur allegedly led the operation of the Russian special services and was related to hacker attacks on the servers of the US Democratic Party. The Russian himself told Bloomberg that he did not know the reason for the arrest. According to Bloomberg sources, the entrepreneur had access to secret information about various major GRU operations abroad. The publication says that Vladislav Klyushin had access to documents regarding the Russian marketing campaign for hacking the servers of the Democratic Party during the elections of the year in the United States.

In addition, he missed the last opportunity to achieve his extradition, which caused bewilderment of many observers in Moscow. According to the agency, among the subordinates Klyushin was a former military intelligence officer Ivan Ermakov, who was accused of indictment along with Klyushin. Klyushin’s lawyer in Switzerland, Oliver Chirich, said that he did not know anything about what documents his client may have, if they have at all.

In an interview, Chirich said that his client was looking for US authorities, because they believe that he has secret information about the hacking of the American elections of the year, which he can imagine to avoid many years behind bars on charges of insider purchase and sale. The American lawyer Klyushin Maxim Germans, having written a statement of release on bail, noted that his client intends to dispute the version of the US government in a legal, professional and fundamental way.

Klyushin is ready to appear to be charged on January 3 of the year. Klyushin’s extradition means that federal law enforcement agencies have not stopped "the persecution of the radical violation of the US sovereignty during the elections of the year, which included criminal behavior." The Russian businessman himself, who founded the IT company, M13, did not plead guilty.

The prosecutor's office demanded that Klushin are 14 years in prison, the defense proposed to reduce the term of up to three years and to test in them for two and a half years, during which Klyushin was in custody during the court. After serving the punishment, Klyushin will be deported from the United States. Vladislav Klyushin, according to the representative of the American prosecutor's office of Set Kostosta, the soft sentence will allow Klyushin to return to Russia and again engage in unlawful activities.

He also stated that the businessman has connections in the highest echelons of the Russian government.In turn, the protection of Klyushin pointed out that the businessman in Russia had children and a long conclusion would not allow them to be educated. Lawyer Maxim Germans insisted on a three -year period that would allow his ward to soon be at large, given the 2.5 years, which he had already been in custody in the United States.

Another Klyushin’s lawyer, Oliver Sirik, pointed out that American justice never proved the businessman's guilt. According to him, the only reason for the court was Klyushin’s connection with the Russian authorities. In February, the court of jury of the Federal Court in Boston found Klyushin guilty of cybercrime. He and other defendants are charged with participation in criminal conspiracy, fraud using electronic tools and securities fraud.

According to investigators, Klyushin and other persons earned tens of millions of dollars by hacking computer networks of the United States to obtain insider information about public companies. The Russian and his accomplices could use this information to trade on the exchange, the investigation claims. Klyushin himself denies the accusations. The official statement of the FSB says that Russian citizens were exchanged for a group of persons acting in the interests of foreign states to the detriment of security of the Russian Federation.

At the airport, Russians were personally met by President Vladimir Putin, saying that those who are related to military service will be presented to the State Bedes. At the same time, his lawyer Maxim Germans emphasizes that, as of the beginning of August, there is no clarity with the status of the case of Klyushin, whom the American authorities sentenced to nine years in prison with securities with electronic means.

The Germans notes that if the businessman does not receive a pardon, the defense will continue to prove his innocence in the American court. No one reported in advance about his [Klyushin] exchange, everything was classified.

It is possible that his business will be open, and we will continue to appeal, - TASS quotes the words of Nemtsev. At the same time, several citizens of this country returned as part of an exchange in the United States. Vladimir Putin signed decrees on the pardon of these persons “with the aim of returning citizens of the Russian Federation, detained and imprisoned in the territory of foreign states”.