Ukrainian Cybercrime Mastermind Sentenced to 18 Years

Roman Vega, 49, who pleaded guilty 4 years ago to creating a popular Internet marketplace for selling stolen financial account information, has received 18 years jail time. Vega was dubbed as one of the world’s most prolific cybercriminals by the US Department of Justice and was sentenced to 18 years in prison for his role in co-founding the notorious portal CarderPlanet.


Media reports revealed that Vega was originally arrested in Cyprus this past February and extradited to the US. The cybercrime mastermind pleaded guilty back in 2009 to conspiracies to commit money laundering and access device fraud and has been in custody since. The authorities didn’t comment why it took them so long to sentence Vega, especially as he admitted the crime in 2009. One would have thought that even with an 18-year sentence, the criminal will be up for parole in a few years based on the 4 years he served.

According to actinghttp://extratorrent.cc/article_add/# assistant Attorney General, Vega helped create one of the largest and most sophisticated credit card fraud websites in the cybercrime underworld. Indeed, CarderPlanet was the best and busiest Internet marketplaces trading stolen financial data, computer hacking services and money laundering, or that’s what the Department of Justice is saying.