RIGA, August 13 (RASPI) - The pending review of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) application filed by Latvian national Deniss Calovskis, who is accused of cyber crime in the US will take about a year, ECHR judge Ineta Ziemele told LNT network on Tuesday.
Ziemele told the journalists that in 2009 the ECHR instituted a priority case review system. Calovskis' case was granted that status, which will allow it to be reviewed within a year's time. Currently Calovskis is being held in detention in Riga Central Prison.
The authorities of Latvia decided last Tuesday to extradite Calovskis to the US. But his attorneys thereafter turned to the ECHR. On Thursday, the ECHR suspended the procedure of extradition.
According to mixnews.lv, Calovskis, 27, who resides in Riga, has been charged with using a Gozi virus to infect over a million computers worldwide, including at NASA, the US space agency. He allegedly worked on the virus together with Russian national Nikita Kuzmin and Romanian national Mihai Ionut Paunescu.
US law enforcement officers arrested Kuzmin during his visit to California in 2010 and persuaded him to cooperate. He helped prosecutors nab the other two men, who were arrested in 2012 in their home.