Armenia Detains Russian Tourist on U.S. Warrant for REvil Hacker, Lawyers Say Wrong Man

Armenia has held a Russian tourist named Aleksandr Ermakov in a detention center since June 28, on a U.S. extradition request for a REvil ransomware suspect named Aleksandr Ermakov.His wife, Maria Yurova, told REN TV that border officers pulled him out of the departure hall at Yerevan’s Zvartnots airport, held up a phone with a photo of him off his VKontakte page, and walked him into a side

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