The prosecutor requested 10 years in prison and € 750,000 in a fine for Alexander Vinnik The prosecutor in France demanded to sentence Russian citizen Alexander Vinnik to 10 years in prison and recover from him € 750,000 in a cyberattack case, writes RIA Novosti. She described Vinnik as "a very smart and capable pirate" and "conductor of the orchestra."

The prosecutor requested 10 years in prison and € 750,000 fine for Alexander Vinnik

The prosecutor in France demanded to sentence Russian citizen Alexander Vinnik to 10 years in prison and recover from him a € 750,000 fine in the case of cyber attacks, RIA Novosti writes. She described Vinnik as "a very smart and capable pirate", as well as an "orchestra conductor".

“Given the seriousness of the facts ... I ask you to sentence Alexander Vinnik to ten years in prison and keep him in custody,” she said.

A new series of court hearings in the Vinnik case began on October 19 at the Paris Correctional Court. In 2017, he was detained in Greece at the request of the United States, accusing him of laundering multibillion-dollar amounts through cryptocurrencies. The French side accuses him of extortion and money laundering, linking him to the creation and distribution of the Locky malware.

Russian lawyer Frederic Belo argues that the charges against his client in the Locky case are unfounded. "We have no material evidence of the involvement of Alexander Vinnik in the Locky virus," he said..

Vinnik himself said on Monday that he had never heard of Locky before his extradition to France..

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