Social Media Crime Blotter: Ukranian Edition

 By 
Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
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Social Media Crime Blotter: Ukranian Edition
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United States politicians are certainly no strangers to controversy, scandal and even criminal activities themselves. While I won't go as far as some do in calling our very President a criminal, there is a decent chunk of America that thinks that way - at least we can say in America that the leader of one the Republican party isn't a convicted fraudster, hacker and thief. In the Ukraine, they're a little less lucky.

Word comes to us via several sources, most recently Fergies Tech Blog, that Dmitri Ivanovich Golubov is leading the upstart "Internet Party of Ukraine," a party he helped create shortly after parliamentary elections in the country last fall. Golubov has a past, though.  He's known by the alias "script," and was arrested and jailed in 2005 on charges of essentially using trojan horse virii to capture and steal credit and debit card credentials.  These crimes racked up millions in losses over several years.

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Other parts of its platform include the "computerization of the entire country," "free computer courses and foreign languages at the expense of the budget," "the creation of offshore zones in certain regions of Ukraine," and the organization in Ukraine as a "tax free paradise with the aim to attract money from all over the world."

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