Arkady L. Bukh

Arkady L. Bukh (Аркадий Львович Бух; born July 25, 1972) is an American criminal defense attorney.

He is best known for representing Azamat Tazhayakov, a college student charged with conspiring to obstruct justice and obstructing justice with the intent to impede a terrorism investigation in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing.

Bukh represented Azamat Tazhayakov, one of the alleged co-conspirators in the Boston Marathon bombing.

Klopov was charged by New York State in 2007 and sentenced to 3.5 to 10.5 years in prison.

Using the Forbes 400 list, Klopov was accused of stealing more than $1.5 million.

Running the operation from his Moscow home, Klopov mined the internet for information about potential victims including Texas billionaire Charles J. Wyly Jr, a friend of then-President George W. Bush.

Four of Klopov's accomplices were subsequently arrested and pleaded guilty.

Klopov's group targeted Texas and California where property and deed information can be found online.

Able to get information about property values and mortgage sizes, the group was able to focus on targets with generally large lines of credit.

Oleg Nikolaenko, dubbed “King of Spam” by the FBI.

Trapped in an FBI sting, Panin was extradited to the U.S, on charges of distributing SpyEye between 2009 and 2011.

Panin, who seemed to have been on Interpol’s notorious “[Interpol notice#Notice types|red list],” was wanted for embezzlement through cyber-fraud totaling $5 million.

Russian authorities called the actions by U.S. authorities completely “unacceptable.”

Igor Klopov targeted Forbes 400 individuals, including a close friend of former President George W. Bush.

Nikolaenko was responsible for one-third of the world's spam before being arrested in 2009.

The FBI's break came in its investigation in August 2009, when Jody Smith of Missouri pleaded guilty to selling counterfeit Rolex watches.

Using grand jury subpoenas, U.S. federal agents traced $459,000 in payments to Nikolaenko.

When Nikolaenko made a second trip to Las Vegas to attend the 2010 SEMA show, he was picked up by federal agents at the Bellagio Hotel and found to be carrying two passports and $4,000 in cash.

Prosecutors say that world-wide spam dropped by 17 percent during the period Nikolaenko was detained.

Horohorin was arrested in France in 2010 and extradited to the U.S. in 2012.

He was sentenced to 88 months in prison and $125,739 in restitution.

Despite being acquitted of all charges in Estonian court in December, 2013, Tsastsin was extradited to the U.S. in October, 2014.

He faces multiple counts of fraud and money laundering in the Southern District of New York.

Russian citizen Aleksandr Panin created the SpyEye Trojan that was used to attack online bank accounts.

Panin was arrested in 2013 while on vacation in the Dominican Republic.

Nikolaenko was sentenced to time served in 2013.

Horohorin Vladislav was described by the US Secret Service as one of its five most wanted cyber criminals globally.

Horohorin was one of the founders of CarderPlanet online board connecting cyber criminals around the world where they facilitated the trade.

He was notorious for selling “dumps”, information encoded on the magnetic stripe of a credit card.

Promoting his operations with video cartoons ridiculing American card holders.

In 2013, a federal indictment in the District of New Jersey charged Mikhail Rytikov and four others with conspiring in a worldwide hacking scheme that targeted major corporate networks and stealing over 160 million credit card numbers.

It is estimated that hundreds of millions of dollars was stolen, making it the largest such scheme ever prosecuted in the U.S.

The five men supposedly sought corporate victims who were engaged in financial transactions, retailers that received and sent financial data and other businesses that utilized information the men felt they could exploit.

The targets of the attacks included NASDAQ, 7-Eleven, Carrefour, Hannaford, Dexia, JetBlue, Dow Jones & Company and others.

He was convicted in April 2014.

The 19-year-old from Kazakhstan attended the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the accused bomber.

Tazhayakov was arrested and indicted for charges associated with evidence tampering.

Bukh has also represented international hackers, like Igor Klopov, Oleg Nikolaenko, Dmitry Naskovets, Vlad Horohorin, Vladimir Tsastsin, Aleksandr Panin, Maksym Shynkarenko, and others.

Vladimir Tsastsin led an Estonian group that was able to place banners on the websites of unsuspecting webmasters, which resulted in payment for any clicks going not to the site owner but to the fraudsters.

Additionally, Tsastsin was able to manipulate queries and ads and resell them.