US Arrests Son of Russian MP In Maldives For Hacking 176
First time accepted submitter ugen (93902) writes "The son of a Russian lawmaker has been arrested by the U.S. on charges of selling credit card information he stole by hacking into the computers of American retailers. Roman Seleznev, 30, was arrested overseas by the U.S. Secret Service on July 5 and was ordered detained today during a hearing in federal court in Guam, the Justice Department said in a statement."
Re:Guam is in the Maldives now? (Score:5, Informative)
Replying to myself - as it turns out, the plot thickens:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... [huffingtonpost.com]
Re:Hm... (Score:4, Informative)
Since when did the US got power to arrest people in Maldives? Does that mean they can just go into arbitrary countries and arrest people arbitrarily?
Not unless the country in question authorizes it. If the Maldives didn't, then it's kidnapping. If they did, then it's deportation, and entirely kosher.