Court actions on REZA ZARRAB (M. Flynn) & YEVGENIY NIKULIN (election hacking) expected this week.

Reza Zarrab, whose release Turkey had been trying to arrange through Michael Flynn and others, has a trial set for November 27. Jury selection is to begin Monday the 20th. Zarrab and his attorney failed to attend court hearings this week, he is no longer in the Federal detention facility, and the rumor is that he is cooperating with Mueller’s investigation. If he is, we might learn that he intends to plead guilty and not stand trial.

Also, the final decision on Yevgeniy Nikulin’s extradition from the Czech Republic may be made this week. While the US has only acknowledged that he was wanted for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring, he claims the FBI interrogated him about US election hacking. Both the US and Russia have been seeking to extradite him, and the Supreme Court in the Czech Republic is supposed to decide this week whether to send him to the US or Russia.

MORE ON REZA ZARRAB HERE:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029861215

ABOUT NIKULIN:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/30/suspected-russian-hacker-step-closer-to-us-extradition-yevgeniy-nikulin

Nikulin wrote in a letter from prison that Miller had interrogated him in Prague on 7 February and raised the election hacking. Excerpts of the letter were provided to the Guardian by Nikulin’s lawyers, but there is no way of substantiating the claims he made.

Nikulin claimed Miller demanded he admit to hacking the DNC servers as part of what the FBI is said to have claimed was a nefarious plot ultimately ordered by Trump, and promised him good treatment in the US if he cooperated. Nikulin wrote that he rejected the offer.

A document among the court papers detailing the interrogation on 7 February confirms Miller and assistant US attorney Michelle J Kane were present in person along with four Czech intelligence officials identified only by their initials.



The document states that Nikulin was read his rights, insisted he was not guilty of the charges, and that the interrogation was concluded after just 29 minutes.

http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ct24/domaci/2307574-z-usa-uz-dorazily-dokumenty-ke-kauze-nikulin-advokati-udajneho-hackera-vsak-chteji

(Through Google Translate)

The Prague High Court will decide next week whether to issue the alleged Russian hacker Evgeniy Nikulin to the US or to Russia. In the meantime, police are investigating the circumstances in which they were detained in the Czech capital. His lawyers consider them illegal.