Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
A Russian man charged with hacking into U.S. businesses testified Friday that he thought he was being kidnapped when three federal agents put him in handcuffs at a Maldives airport last year and led him from the building. A former Maldivian prosecutor and expert on the country’s laws testified later in the day that the arrest of Roman Seleznev by U.S. agents was conducted in an unlawful manner and violated the country’s constitution. Hussian Shameem also said the Seleznev’s rights were violated when they did not offer a lawyer and searched his luggage without a warrant. Seleznev, who spoke through an interpreter in federal court, said one of the agents shoved him into a room and forced him onto a couch before telling him he was under arrest. The son of a Russian Parliament member said he asked to see a lawyer and call the Russian embassy, but the agents refused. They searched his luggage without permission and refused to tell him where he was going, he said. When they covered his handcuffs with a T-shirt before walking him to a chartered airplane, “it looked very strange to me,” Seleznev said. “I thought that really they were kidnapping me,” he […]
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