BOSTON — The fate of a Kremlin-connected Russian tech businessman accused of directing an $82 million hacking scheme of non-public reports of U.S. companies and then illegally trading off this information is now in the hands of a federal jury.
Attorneys made their closing arguments Friday following the two-week trial of Vladislav Klyushin in federal court in Boston’s Seaport District.
The defense argued that the case was politically motivated and built on “predetermined conclusions.” The prosecution argued that Klyushin’s trading activities had only a “one-in-a-trillion chance” of being coincidental and unconnected to the hacking.
