A New Russian Ploy: Competing Extradition Requests (Published 2017)

Lawyers for an accused Russian hacker, Pyotr Y. Levashov, leaving court after his extradition hearing in Madrid in July.Credit...Luca Piergiovanni/European Pressphoto Agency MOSCOW — The Russian spam kingpin had long been in the cross hairs of the F.B.I., and agents finally got their shot when the man scheduled a vacation in Spain. At the agency’s request, Spanish security officers in April arrest

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12/20 At the agency(FBI)’s request, Spanish security officers in April arrested the man, Pyotr Y. Levashov, who is accused of stuffing untold millions of inboxes with ads for pornography, pills and penny stocks. But then the Russian authorities sprang a trap of their own, filing an extradition(