{"id":5006,"date":"2026-09-08T22:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T03:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/russian-extradited-to-the-u-s-in-bank-fraud-scheme\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T22:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T03:17:13","slug":"russian-extradited-to-the-u-s-in-bank-fraud-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/russian-extradited-to-the-u-s-in-bank-fraud-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Extradited to the U.S. in Bank Fraud Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ATLANTA, GA \u2013 September 8, 2026 (STL.News) A Russian national accused of helping run a sophisticated international cyberfraud scheme targeting online banking customers across the United States has been extradited to the U.S. He now faces federal charges that could result in decades in prison. Sergei Anatolyevich Filimonov, 36, a Russian national and web developer, was extradited from the Republic of Georgia and arraigned Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Filimonov pleaded not guilty during his September 4 appearance before a federal magistrate judge in Atlanta<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/russian-extradited-to-the-u-s-in-bank-fraud-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA, GA \u2013 September 8, 2026 (STL.News) A Russian national accused of helping run a sophisticated international cyberfraud scheme targeting online banking customers across the United States has been extradited to the U.S. He now faces federal charges that could&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5008,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/revisions\/5008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}