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Karim Baratov's lawyer Amedeo DiCarlo said he is in discussions
with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. prosecutors in
Washington about the case and will announce a decision at a
hearing due on July 7.
Baratov, a Canadian citizen born in Kazakhstan, was arrested in
March on U.S. charges that he was paid to break into at least 80
email accounts by Russian intelligence agents who masterminded
the 2014 theft of data from some 500 million Yahoo Inc <YHOO.O>
user accounts.
He is the only one of four people charged in the case currently
in custody. Two others are Russian intelligence agents,
according to U.S. authorities, and the third is Alexsey Belan,
one of the FBI's most wanted cyber criminals.
Baratov has been denied bail and remains in an Ontario jail,
with judges ruling that he is a flight risk.
(Reporting by Alastair Sharp; Editing by Tom Brown)
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