"Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of the Southern District of New York, Assistant Director in Charge Diego Rodriguez of the FBI’s New York Field Office and Special Agent in Charge Robert J. Sica of the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) New York Field Office announced today the unsealing of a superseding indictment charging Gery Shalon, aka “Garri Shalelashvili,” “Gabriel,” “Gabi,” “Phillipe Mousset” and “Christopher Engeham,” with orchestrating massive computer hacking crimes against U.S. financial institutions, brokerage firms and financial news publishers, including the largest theft of customer data from a U.S. financial institution in history (the U.S. Financial Sector Hacks). Shalon is charged with committing these crimes with Joshua Samuel Aaron, aka “Mike Shields,” in furtherance of securities market manipulation schemes that Shalon and Aaron perpetrated with defendant Ziv Orenstein, aka “Aviv Stein” and “John Avery” in the United States.
As alleged, Shalon also orchestrated computer network hacks and cyberattacks in furtherance of other major criminal schemes, including unlawful internet casinos and illicit payment processors which Shalon operated with Orenstein. Shalon also owned and controlled an illegal U.S.-based Bitcoin exchange known as Coin.mx. Shalon and Orenstein were arrested in July 2015 by the Israel Police on an indictment that charged the underlying securities fraud, and they remain in custody in Israel pending extradition on those charges." (thanks Peter)
