Vladislav Klyushin is Anyway, have a bad day. The judge abandoned the attorney’s argument in his case, while his friends called for leniency. She sentenced a difficult sentence: she had another nine years in the U.S. federal prison, except for the order to lose $34 million in wealth.
But if Klyushin was upset by the ruling, he wouldn’t show it. The 42-year-old technical director from Moscow seemed optimistic at the time – his pinchable cheeks had a bright smile and was unshakable courteous, just like when he was arrested near a Swiss ski resort in March 2021, when he was skiing in Switzerland Near the resort, he was detained for several months in Switzerland, where he was extradited to the United States in December, prosecution and trial of allegations of hacker and wire fraud and his swift conviction. Klesing “has been full of confidence that eventually the Russians will bring him back,” one of his defense lawyers told me. He seemed sure the protectors in the Kremlin would exempt him from his full judgment.
Sometimes certainty seems to be conserved. The U.S. federal prison system has 35 Russian nationals. Of course, not everyone is traded. His family and friends were upset. But, in less than a year, Closing was proven to be correct. On August 1, 2024, he unwavered and returned to Moscow by plane, one of the largest and most complex US Russian prisoner exchanges ever.
What you might have heard About Exchange. This is the man who brought Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan to the United States and sent back to Russia to a Kremlin with the Kremlin There is a connection between the assassin and a couple duet, they are so deep into the secret secret. The children didn’t learn until they got on the plane that they were Russian. Within the coverage of the exchange, Klyushin is considered a footnote. This is a mistake, even understandable. Not only because he is the center of one of the largest insider trading cases ever.
The conflict between the United States and Russia has played a role in various ways over the past decade. An American prisoner is exchange Just two weeks ago; There are at least 10 U.S. citizens Keep imprisoned in Russia. And now, there is a Kremlin-friendly occupant to the Oval Office, someone who likes to be seen as a deal. One is that in the global financial markets, the United States and its allies are increasingly deviating from the international economy. However, there will always be creative people who find cracks in that wall, and Klyushin is certainly one of them. Despite the global lockdown, you don’t have to be too hard to see his plan (which eventually purified $93 million) brings capital to Russia. The game is also evident in the streets of Moscow, where secret security forces of the Kremlin seized U.S. citizens accused of false crimes and hung them in the industry of Kremlin’s killers, spies and colleagues. This is kidnapping and hostage hijacking, which is actually done by the president Vladimir Putincommand. Often, Americans are precisely because of their value as assets later exchanged to restore people like the Assassin or such financial fraud klyushin. He is not the highest position on the Moscow trade list. But Klyushin is willing to admit more than either side that it is closer to the Klyushin and more important to the Kremlin.
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Go outside World, Klyushin has a rag, fairytale life with smoked wedding videos to prove it. In a montage later obtained by U.S. attorneys, Klyushin sneaks into a country club swimming pool. His bride-to-be Zhannetta splashed pink champagne on the outdoor bed with chiffon and roses exposed. He picked her up in a white Porsche convertible. She was pretty in a backless dress. With his evening gown and subtle mul flavor, he is handsome, even a little stupid. They dance meaningfully and stare at the fireworks, interrupting the perfect night. Zhannetta later wrote to the judge in his case.
They have three children, adding two klyushin klyushin kids from their former marriages. He is known to be a playful father, far from his own crying, a man or stepfather he had never seen before, killed when he was robbed when he was 14 years old. enterprise. First, he is engaged in construction and marketing. Later, he ran an IT company called M13, which sold media and internet surveillance software to Russian government agencies. Early clients in 2016 included the Ministry of Defense and the Presidential Administration, and Putin’s propaganda head became a key supporter of the M13. The company’s software is used to retain hundreds of tags telegraph A local news report said the Kremlin channel was concerned about “unverified or intentional introduction of false information.”
Klyushin’s rise is rapid, winning over $30 million in government contracts within a decade. This confuses some of his professional peers. (“The company and its owners are the most overwhelmed in the IT community,” a respected Russian business magazine pointed out in 2021.) But it brings him influence and admirers. He supported the arts and rebuilt the roof of the monastery on Rubianka Street in Moscow, several blocks from the headquarters of the Russian spy service FSB. Later, a friend called klyushin a “ecological activist” (used to grow a few spruces in the yard) and a “pet lover” (his “favorite pet is a dog”). “The mind is broad, read, educated,” his family and tennis coach said. A M13 employee said the conversation with Klyushin was “like taking a class from a master.”
