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Computer hackers claimed hundreds of victims.
The United Kingdom's defense minister has decided to extradite Portuguese hacker Diogo Santos Coelho to the United States, where he could face up to 57 years in prison, CNN Portugal reported. In February, Portugal made an extradition request for a 24-year-old man born in Visu.
Rejecting defense arguments, the minister opted for extradition to the US. Diogo has been charged in the US with conspiracy, device access fraud and aggravated identity theft for creating and managing Raidforums, which raised millions of euros through the sale of data from US companies. Country.
Diogo's defense, who is under house arrest in the United Kingdom, has three months to appeal the court's decision, CNN Portugal reported.
According to the media, the British judge who was in charge of assessing the extradition request submitted by Portugal also ordered extradition to our country. But the British Public Prosecutor's Office referred the case to the minister because there were two extradition requests.
