MOSCOW, April 8 – RAPSI. Vladislav Anatolievich Horohorin, a 30-year-old Russian, Ukrainian, and Israeli citizen, was sentenced in the US Friday to 88 months in prison and ordered to pay $125,739 in restitution for trafficking in millions of stolen credit cards and for having played a role in the theft of upwards of $9 million from an American credit card company, according to a statement issued by the US Department of Justice.

Horohorin was indicted by two separate grand juries between 2009 and 2010 for charges relating to the credit card scandal. In November 2009, a grand jury in Washington DC indicted him on charges of access device fraud. In August 2010, a grand jury in Georgia issued another indictment, charging him with wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and access device fraud.

He was arrested in a joint effort between French and American law enforcement authorities while attempting to board a flight from Nice to Moscow in August 2010, and extradited to the US.

The DOJ statement asserts that: “[a]t the time of his arrest, Horohorin possessed more than 2.5 million stolen credit and debit card numbers.”

In October 2012 he pleaded guilty to both access device fraud charges, and to the charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

In his guilty plea, Horohorin explained that he sold stolen credit and debit card information online via criminal forums, using the handle “BadB.”

He further admitted to having played a leading role in a counterfeit payroll scheme that allowed for the withdrawal of upwards of $9 million from ATM machines around the world. The statement adds that, “Horohorin, and those he recruited, used one of the stolen account numbers to withdraw more than $125,000 from ATMs in and around Moscow.”