Peter Yuryevich Levashov, 36, was arrested in April this year when he was travelling with his family to Barcelona, Spain from his home in Russia. He was accused of operating the Kelihos botnet a global network of more than 100,000 infected computers used to deliver spam, steal login passwords and infect computers with ransomware and other malware since at least 2010. The Russian programmer has previously worked with for Vladimir Putin’s United Russia Party for ten years. He fears that the US authorities would torture him for information about his political work if sent there to face the charges against him.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2017/10/peter-levashov-kelihos.html