DOJ says credit card trafficker arrested

[August 12, 2010]  WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department says an international credit card trafficker who allegedly sold stolen credit card information has been arrested in Nice, France.

The department says French authorities worked with the U.S. Secret Service and arrested Vladislav Anatolievich Horohorin as he attempted to board a flight to return to Moscow.

Horohorin -- whose online name is "BadB" -- is being detained in France pending extradition to the United States. He is a citizen of Israel and Ukraine.

Court documents say Horohorin sold the unauthorized credit card information to Secret Service agents via websites.

The D.C. grand jury indictment says he sold more than 15 credit card account numbers issued to other people that had been lost, stolen, expired, revoked or canceled.

[Associated Press]

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