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Notorious Hacker Kingpin ‘Tank’ Is Finally Going to Prison

Posted on July 11, 2024July 11, 2024 by Dissent

Matt Burgess reports:

For more than a decade, Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov—a Ukrainian who used the online hacker name “Tank”—managed to evade cops. When FBI and Ukrainian officials raided his Donetsk apartment in 2010, the place was deserted and Penchukov had vanished. But the criminal spree came to a juddering halt at the end of 2022, when he traveled to Switzerland, was arrested, then was extradited to the United States.

Today, at a US federal court in Lincoln, Nebraska, a judge sentenced Penchukov to two concurrent nine-year sentences, after he pleaded guilty to two charges of conspiracy to participate in racketeering and a conspiracy to commit wire fraud. United States District Judge John M. Gerrard also ordered Penchukov to pay more than $73 million, according to court records. The court also ordered three years of supervised release for each count and said they should run concurrently.

Read more at WIRED.

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