Whereas EOS isn’t talked about as a blockchain with a real-world use case, the cryptocurrency has confirmed to be very helpful within the newest extradition of an Uzbek nationwide residing in Ukraine: Nikita Sklyuev, often known as Valeriy Dorojkin, was lastly extradited this week to face prices associated to wire fraud from 2019.

In response to paperwork from the 2019 prices, Sklyuev created a faux EOS pockets explorer that was capable of entry the personal keys of a person who held over two million EOS — valued at $11.8 million on the time — and transfer the crypto onto Binance and Bitfinex, the place he then traded into Ethereum and ultimately cashed out.

Over half the stolen EOS has not been touched but and is at present valued at about $640,000 — a decline of 86% from when it was hacked.

Sklyuev hacked the ‘Hodgetwins’ — a Republican-leaning comedy duo with tens of millions of followers — again in 2018 in response to an previous Steemit publish.

Learn extra: How wire fraud, not securities violations, lands crypto criminals in jail

Uzbekistan, Ukraine, and the Western District of New York

It’s unclear what the 37 year-old Uzbek nationwide was doing in Ukraine, however his presence within the Western-aligned nation definitely made his extradition simpler.

Sklyuev arrived within the US on June twentieth, along with his mugshot circulating on Fb upon his arrival.

Sklyuev faces up to twenty years in jail and a tremendous of $250,000 — although he’s more likely to spend lower than 20 years behind bars.

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