Russian businessman gets 9 years in US prison for hack-and-trade scheme
BOSTON (Reuters) -A Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin was sentenced on Thursday to nine years in a U.S. prison after being convicted of participating in a $93 million insider-trading scheme involving hacked secret earnings information about multiple companies. Vladislav Klyushin, the owner of a Moscow-based information technology company called M-13 that did work for the Russian government, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Patti Saris in Boston after a jury found him guilty in February. Hackers from 2018 to 2020 viewed and downloaded yet-to-be-announced earnings reports for hu...