Seleznev, Valery Sergeevich

Born September 5, 1964 in Vladivostok . After school, he worked as an acoustic test operator in a diesel-assembly workshop of a military unit.

In 1986 he graduated from the Far Eastern Institute of Soviet Trade (now the Pacific State Economic University ) with a degree in Trade Economics.

Even at a young age, Valery lost his right arm as a result of an injury and became disabled . Nevertheless, he continued to work on the construction and production site, led enterprises in the real sector of the economy, and implemented several large infrastructure projects.

In 1994, Valery Seleznev began to do business, in 1998 he was the general director of the Australian Food Company, in 1999 he was a member of the board of directors of Primorsky Confectioner OJSC, and in 2002 became president of the Fatherland LLC. ^[2] He was also the owner of Vladivostok City LLC, Rodina LLC, Teatralnoye LLC, Direct Sales Studio LLC, Capital-SV LLC, Antalya LLC ^[3] .

In 2007, he became a deputy of the State Duma of the fifth convocation, having been elected to the LDPR federal list of candidates for the Primorsky Territory . Member of the LDPR faction. In the Duma of the fifth convocation, he was a member of the Property Committee, he oversaw the areas of lawmaking related to anti-raiding and bankruptcy . Since April 2009, he has been a member of the Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs.

In December 2011, Seleznev was elected to the State Duma of the sixth convocation in the top ten of the federal list of the Liberal Democratic Party. Elected to the post of first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Property Issues.

In the State Duma of the fifth convocation, Seleznev created the Inter-Factional Deputy Association (MDO) of the State Duma for Disabled Persons. The purpose of the association was to promote the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. As a co-chair of the MDO, Seleznev joined the efforts of deputies from different factions to solve the problems of people with disabilities in Russia and to implement the State Target Program “Accessible Environment”. Seleznev established and headed the Foundation for the Promotion of the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities "Accessible Environment and Universal Design." He spoke in support of the construction of the Moscow-Kazan High-Speed ​​Railway.

Seleznev - member of the Coordinating Council for Disabled Affairs under the Government of the Moscow Region, member of the Expert Council under the Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation, member of the working group on the interaction of the CEC of Russia with all-Russian public organizations of disabled people and the section on ensuring the electoral rights of persons with disabilities at the CEC of Russia , member of the Working Group for the preparation of the State Council, member of the Public Council for the development of high-speed and high-speed communication I am in the Russian Federation.

In 2016, he was elected a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the seventh convocation from the regional list of the Liberal Democratic Party.

He was repeatedly married. He has four sons from different marriages ^[4] .

The son from his first marriage, Roman, born in 1984, graduated from the Far Eastern Federal University with a degree in Trade Economics. The father claims that after the terrorist attack in April 2011 in Marrakesh, Roman became disabled. ^[5]

In March 2011, in the Western District of Washington, Roman Seleznev was charged in absentia with hacker intrusions into retail store checkout systems throughout the United States from October 2009 to February 2011. ^[6] On July 5, 2014, Roman Seleznev was detained at an airport in Male city in the Maldives by agents of US intelligence on charges of computer fraud, hacking , hacking bank accounts and stealing personal data of credit card holders and damaging US citizens and organizations in the amount of about 2 million dollars ^[7] . After that, Roman was transferred to a prison on the American island of Guam , and then to the United States .

Father, Valery Seleznev, regarded the detention of his son in the Maldives as an abduction and appealed for support to the Russian Foreign Ministry ^{[8] [9]} . The Maldives law enforcement authorities, however, rejected the accusations of the Russian Foreign Ministry about the abduction of Roman: the detention was carried out within the law - in accordance with the “red notice” of Interpol and with his assistance ^[10] .

Seattle , Washington, DC, a federal district court , charged Roman with hacking and breaking retail outlets across the United States in 2009-2011. According to the prosecution, he used malware to manage the servers and sites of international card forums to facilitate the theft and sale of stolen credit card information. According to the investigation, 1.7 million credit card numbers were found on the hard drive of Seleznev Jr.'s laptop, and more than $ 18 million received as a result of illegal operations on his bank accounts. With these funds, in particular, two apartments in Bali were purchased with a total value of 800 thousand dollars ^{[4] [7] [11]} .

On August 25, 2016, a Seattle district jury found Roman Seleznev guilty of hacking computer systems of various companies in the United States and stealing information about 1.7 million credit card numbers with subsequent sale via the Internet for a total of $ 170 million. The jury found Seleznev's proven guilt in 38 of the 40 episodes of the criminal case. Of these, 10 relate to cyber fraud and nine to unauthorized access to computer networks. ^{[12] [13]} On April 21, 2017, he was sentenced to 27 years in prison. ^[14] The court refused to take into account Seleznev's confession. The judge explained that the confession made after the jury verdict “did not meet the expectations of the court” ^[15] .

Federal Attorney Anetta Hayes stated in connection with the sentencing ^[16] :

Today is a bad day for hackers around the world. The days when the Internet was like the Wild West are gone.

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Today is a bad day for hackers around the world. The notion that the internet is a Wild West where anything goes is a thing of the past.

Seleznev the father called the verdict “predetermined and cannibalistic” ^[15] .

• Gratitude of the Government of the Russian Federation ( December 17, 2014 ) - for merits in lawmaking and many years of diligent work ^[17]
• Gratitude of the President of Russian Railways
• Letter of appreciation from the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation
• Letter of thanks from the President of the Russian Federation
• Certificate of honor from the Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the 6th convocation ^[18] .