WASHINGTON, November 3 (RIA Novosti) — Alleged Russian cybercriminal Roman Seleznev, who is currently awaiting trial at a Seattle prison, has asked the court to postpone the proceedings to May 2015, according to a waiver of speedy trial made available by the court Monday.
“I knowingly and voluntarily waive my right to a speedy trial and consent to a continuance of the date of my trial from November 3, 2014 to May 4, 2015,” Seleznev said in the document, which is dated October 29.
The court is yet to make a decision on whether it will postpone the trial.
Both the prosecutors and the defense have previously asked the court to postpone the proceedings because of the case's complexity, stating that it would be impossible to be prepared for trial on the initial date.
On July 5, Russian national Roman Seleznev was detained by US secret service agents in the Maldives and brought to Guam, and later to Washington. The Russian Foreign Ministry and Seleznev’s father, Russian parliament member Valery Seleznev, have deemed the incident a kidnapping.
In October, US federal prosecutors filed 11 new charges against Seleznev, bringing the total number of charges to 40. US prosecutors claim that, between October 2009 and October 2013, Seleznev allegedly hacked into retail point-of-sale systems and installed malicious software to steal more than two million credit card numbers from various businesses. He faces up to 30 years in prison if found guilty.
