The US Department of Justice has charged a Russian public for operating the now-defunct Jokerstash registering forum.

officers say Timur Shakhmametov went online under the aliases of JokerStash and Vega. He launched Jokerstash in October 2014 and shut down operations in February 2021, two months after Interpol and the FBI seized some of its front- facing garçon structure.

trouble intel companies have estimated the forum made between$ 280 million to$ 1 billion by dealing further than 40 million payment card details.

For numerous times, Shakhmametov and Joker's Stash played a pivotal part in the cybercrime underground. The point was thede-facto center of the registering world from 2017 to 2020 — which was also the reason why it attracted the FBI's aspect at the end of 2020.

But US authorities do not look like they are willing to give Shakhmametov a chance to retire in peace just because he shut down the forum on his own.

In fact, a serious grudge has been brewing, and through its prices for Justice Program, the US State Department is n't only offering a$ 10 million price for information on Shakhmametov but also offering another$ 1 million for word on the rest of his admin staff.

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