# Alleged Russian hacker arrested in Spain.

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**Created:** [January 20, 2017, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alleged-russian-hacker-arrested-in-spain/777615 "2017-01-20T11:28:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alleged-russian-hacker-arrested-in-spain/777615/1 "2017-01-20T11:28:43Z")

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I’m putting this in MPSIMS because the reports don’t indicate yet whether this is related to the election or something else.  
[http://bigstory.ap.org/article/27ea797f2d6d4548aabd62aa31fcf213/spain-arrests-russian-wanted-us-alleged-hacking](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/27ea797f2d6d4548aabd62aa31fcf213/spain-arrests-russian-wanted-us-alleged-hacking)

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> MADRID (AP) — Spanish officials say a Russian computer programmer wanted by the United States on hacking allegations has been jailed while a decision is made on whether to extradite him.
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> The National Court said Thursday that Stanislav Lisov, 31, was jailed Jan. 13 after Civil Guard police arrested him at Barcelona airport on an FBI warrant issued though Interpol.

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alleged-russian-hacker-arrested-in-spain/777615/2 "2017-01-20T13:36:36Z")

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For anybody wondering what the National Court is and if it’s like a Supreme Court: Spain’s legal system has at the bottom courts which cover a small area called a _partido judicial_, then courts that cover their province (except for Euskadi, which gets a single one for all three provinces), then the Supreme Court. The National one works as both a first-level for issues considered to affect areas larger than a province (or multiple provinces), and as the appellate tribunal for issues which started in a province-level court. Hacking crimes tend to affect several provinces so they’re assigned to that court.

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**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alleged-russian-hacker-arrested-in-spain/777615/3 "2017-01-20T18:05:17Z")

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Other sites are saying he was wanted in connection with a banking Trojan, and not the Podesta phish.

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**Author:** ![Evan\_Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alleged-russian-hacker-arrested-in-spain/777615/4 "2017-01-20T18:37:43Z")

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Still, all you have to do is to prove/allege old Donnie slipped him a bunch of bitcoin, and you’re away to the races !

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**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alleged-russian-hacker-arrested-in-spain/777615/5 "2017-01-20T19:16:55Z")

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> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#):
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> Other sites are saying he was wanted in connection with a banking Trojan, and not the Podesta phish.

I had a feeling that it would be something like that. I’m glad to see that he was caught. People like that can create a lot of havoc in people’s lives.