A cybercrime kingpin in a US prison speaks - Cyber Hack: Evil Corp Ep4, BBC World Service podcast

Cybercrime kingpin Tank speaks for the first time. How did he evade arrest by the FBI and steal so much money from his victims?

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How did Vyacheslav Penchukov - aka Tank - dodge the FBI when they came to his home? And how did he and his alleged crime gang steal millions of dollars from their victims? We learn that Jabber Zeus boss Tank had friends in high political places in Ukraine – and a budding young business associate in Russia.

Evil Corp is accused of being “the most pervasive cybercrime group to ever have operated” by law enforcement agencies and said to have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars.

Hosted by Joe Tidy, the BBC’s cyber correspondent – one of the few Western journalists to have met an alleged member of Evil Corp – and the BBC’s Eastern and Southern Europe correspondent Sarah Rainsford, who spent more than two decades reporting from Moscow.

00:00 You can call me Slava
03:09 Heading to Denver, Colorado
04:30 Meeting Tank
06:48 Growing up in Ukraine
08:06 A first taste of cybercrime
10:29 A VIP client of Zeus
13:31 Forming the Jabber Zeus crew
16:13 Tank says he wanted to quit
18:17 How did he escape the FBI in Donetsk?
19:56 What was going on in Ukraine in 2010?
21:46 Did someone tip Tank off about the raid?
24:21 Friends in high places
26:41 Working with Aqua
29:47 A big mistake

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