Russian businessman who appeared in federal court on insider trading and computer hacking charges had previously spurned approaches by US and British intelligence agencies while traveling in Europe, his lawyer told NBCNews
by the Securities and Exchange Commission accuse him of participating in an illegal scheme that reaped more than $82 million by trading U.S. stocks on inside information gleaned from hacking.
In October 2018, Ermakov was also charged in federal court in Pittsburgh in connection with allegations that he played a role in hacking and related disinformation operations attributed to the Russian government that targeted international anti-doping agencies, sporting federations and anti-doping officials.
“There’s likely more than meets the eye to this indictment and extradition,” Figliuzzi said. “Time will expose how valuable this individual could be to the U.S. intelligence community. Ciric said two Americans who Klyushin assumed worked for U.S. intelligence agencies approached him in a bar in the south of France last summer. One or both spoke Russian, and after a polite conversation Klyushin made it clear that he was not open to recruitment, he told his lawyer.
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