MOSCOW, July 24 (RAPSI) – A court in Guam has personal jurisdiction over Russian national Roman Seleznev who was arrested in the Maldives and brought to the US to stand trial in cash register systems hacking case, according to the memorandum filed by prosecutors with the court and obtained by RAPSI.

“The Supreme Court [of the US] has held that personal jurisdiction in a criminal case is established by the simple fact of the defendant’s presence before the court, regardless of how that presence was secured,” the document reads.

The memorandum was filed in response to Seleznev’s motion to dismiss the case and set him free. The defense team of Seleznev claim that he was seized by US Secret Service agents and whisked away to the US in violation of the US and international law. Seleznev's attorney Pat Civille believes that his client’s presence in the US court has not been lawfully procured.

In the meantime, the Russian Foreign Ministry claimed that Seleznev was abducted.

Seleznev, 30, faces charges of hacking into retail point-of-sale systems to install malicious software to steal credit card numbers and with operating servers and international carding forum websites to facilitate the theft and sale of stolen credit card data.

An arrest warrant for Seleznev was issued by the US District Court for the Western District of Washington in 2011. The prosecutors insist on Seleznev's removal to the Western District of Washington for trial on a pending indictment.

"Because this Court has been provided a reliable copy of that indictment and accompanying arrest warrant (ECF No. 1 [attachments]), the only remaining issue is the question of identity, i.e., whether Seleznev is “the same person named in the indictment,” the memorandum reads.