The High Court of Justice has ordered a temporary halt to the extradition of a Russian hacker to the United States.
The ruling comes after Aleksey Burkov submitted a petition to the High Court against the extradition, which was approved last week by Justice Minister Amir Ohana.
The family of Naama Issachar, an Israeli woman being held in Russia on drug charges, also submitted a petition against Burkov’s extradition.
Israeli officials reportedly the case of Issachar, who received a 7.5 year prison sentence this month after some 10 grams of marijuana were found in her bag during a stopover in Moscow, is linked to that of Burkov.
Burkov, an IT specialist, was arrested in Israel in 2015 at the request of Israel. He is wanted in the US on embezzlement charges in a massive credit card scheme that saw him allegedly steal millions of dollars from American consumers.
According to Channel 13 news, Burkov’s lawyer proposed that the Russian national be extradited to the US on condition that if convicted, he would serve any prison time in Russia.
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