4 members of the REvil ransomware group have been launched from custody regardless of pleading responsible to fraud and malware distribution costs. The Dzerzhinsky Court docket of St. Petersburg allowed Roman Muromsky, Andrei Bessonov, Mikhail Golovachuk, and Dmitry Korotaev to stroll free after sentencing them to 5 years in jail on Monday, ruling that the gang members had spent sufficient time in a Russian detention middle whereas awaiting trial.
In line with Russian state-owned news agency TASS, Muromsky, Bessonov, Golovachuk, and Korotaev confirmed they had been concerned in REvil actions between October 2015 and January 2022, and primarily focused US residents. This consists of “carding,” a type of fraud and laundering that entails utilizing stolen bank card info to purchase pay as you go present playing cards.
The courtroom additionally ordered Bessonov to give up two 2020 BMWs, and a 2019 Mercedes-Benz C200 and greater than $1 million (in rubles and US {dollars}) to be seized from Korotaev. The sentencing didn’t embrace any fines.
A complete of 14 REvil members had been arrested in January 2022, 4 of whom — Daniil Puzyrevsky, Artem Zayets, Alexey Malozemov, and Ruslan Khansvyarov — had been handed jail sentences of as much as six and a half years in October. It’s not at present believed that any of them have been, or can be, extradited to the US.