On Tuesday, the Spanish court decided to extradite Lisov to the United States. The programmer was detained at the request of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in January 2017 in Barcelona. On July 20, he had the extradition hearing in Madrid, at which he pleaded not guilty. Lisov is suspected of developing a "banking Trojan" entitled NeverQuest, which provided fraudsters access to computers of other persons and financial institutions to steal banking data.
"Today, the defense of Stanislav Lisov received the decision of… the National Court [of Spain], in which the abovementioned judicial body considered that it was possible to extradite our client to the United States. This is by no means the final decision and it will be appealed in early September… In fact, we did not receive any answer to our questions related to numerous, in our opinion, violations both in the extradition process and documents sent by the American side. We hope that the other [judicial] body will pay attention to our legal reasoning… Otherwise, we have already announced our intention to refer to the Constitutional Court of Spain," the statement read.
The investigation of Lisov's case was launched in the United States in 2014. In August 2015, a US court issued an arrest warrant, while an international arrest warrant was issued in early January this year. If convicted, Lisov may be sentenced to up to 25 years in prison.
