On the list is Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner mercenary group, who rose through the ranks on the orders of the Kremlin, for shady deals in African affairs or waging war in Ukraine.
US intelligence agents are searching for several Russian citizens**, who are associated with global plots and overt criminal acts.**
These fugitives are wanted for their alleged involvement in an eclectic mix of crimes and schemes, ranging from rigging the US election to smuggling quantum computers.
These are some of most wanted russians:
Natalia Burlinova
The FBI accuses Burlinova of collect information for Moscow in the United States.
With the support of the Russian Security Service (FSB), Burlinova allegedly recruited Europeans and Americans for the “Meet Russia” program of the NGO she ran, Creative Diplomacy.
It is believed that there he evaluated his views on Russia and collected your personal and professional information, which it then passed on to the FSB in exchange for funding and other aid for your NGO.
During her stay in the United States, Burlinova visited universities and research institutes, to which she allegedly provided more detailed information about those sympathetic to Russia.
The last time she was heard from was in Moscow.
Creative Diplomacy denies the allegations against Burlinova. In April she wrote on Twitter that there was no evidence of her accusations against her, and denounced “acts of provocation and speculation in the media.”
Yevgeny Prigozhin
For some, that Prigozhin belongs to the list, it is not a surprise.
US secret services are looking for Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the notorious Russian mercenary group Wagner, for his alleged interference in the 2016 US electionwhich brought the arsonist Donald Trump to the White House.
Described as a “very disreputable character”, the former sausage seller rose through the ranks doing the Kremlin’s bidding, whether it was using his private militia for shady dealings in African affairs or waging war in Ukraine.
Some have claimed that Prigozhin has his own political ambitions and that he could aspire to the presidency of Russia.
The FBI claims that Prigozhin “oversaw” an election interference operation by the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency (IRA), considered a “troll farm” that he financed.
And Prigozhin He is charged with “conspiracy to defraud the United States impeding, obstructing and nullifying the legitimate functions” of the Federal Election Commission, the Department of Justice and the Department of State of the United States.
His plot consisted of create hundreds of fake accounts on the Internet, that delivered content that reached a “significant number” of Americans.
The FBI is offering $250,000 for any information that could lead to his arrest.
Boris Yakovlevich Livshits
From Leningrad, Livshits is accused of illegally sourcing and sending sensitive US military technologies to Russia.
The FBI claims it managed to get hold of advanced equipment used in quantum computing, hypersonic missiles, nuclear weapons development, and other military and space applications.
In between Your clients the Russian intelligence agencies, the Ministry of Defense and some universities in the country.
Livshits, operating under the aliases Boris Levitan, Boris Livshitc and David Wetzky, allegedly helped finance and smuggle tens of thousands of US-made, military-grade sniper bullets.
Livshits is linked to Russia, Estonia, Finland, Kazakhstan, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, and the United States.
An arrest warrant has been issued against him.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Gavrilov
Gavrilov, an FSB agent, is Wanted for a Russian hacking campaign in the global energy sector.
Together with his colleagues Pavel Aleksandrovich Akulov and Marat Valeryevich Tyukov – also wanted by FBI agents – Gavrilov, 44, would have hacked computer systems of oil, gas and renewable energy companies, electricity networks, nuclear power plants and technology companies.
These operations allowed the Kremlin to attack and disrupt these companies.
Petr Nikolayevich Pliskin
Pliskin’s last whereabouts was the Russian capital.
In October 2020, a Pennsylvania jury returned an indictment against him and five other Kremlin intelligence officers. for his alleged involvement in a series of politically charged cybercrimes.
The FBI claims Pliskin was involved with attacks on critical infrastructure in Ukraine, a political campaign in France, international casualties associated with the 2018 Winter Olympics, and investigations into nerve agent attacks that have been publicly attributed to the government. Russian.
“All these “destructive” and “disruptive” actions [fueron] for the strategic benefit of Russia,” the FBI said.
Igor Dekhtyarchuk
Born in 1998, Dekhtyarchuk studied at Ural State University in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
The FBI accuses this 25-year-old of a long list of cybercrimes:
is suspected of running a criminal market that sold thousands of login credentials, personal information and other useful tools, for other criminals to access the online accounts of people around the world.
Any lead can be given to the FBI online, over the phone, or at a US embassy.