Russian National Nikulin Transferred Back To Jail After Psychiatric Expertise - Lawyer

Sumaira FH Published January 24, 2019 | 06:15 AM

WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 24th January, 2019) Russian national Yevgeniy Nikulin, who is accused by US authorities of hacking social networks, has been transferred back to jail after psychiatric expertise, his lawyer Arkady Bukh told Sputnik on Wednesday.

"Psychological and psychiatric expertise has been finished by the hospital and he was transferred from Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Los Angeles to the jail near the courthouse in San Francisco," Bukh said.

The report is done but it will be sent to the judge, the lawyer said.

"We will not have it until it is released by the court," he suggested.

Bukh also noted that he received a big package of documents from the prosecutors, stressing that they "provided a big chunk of their discovery on the file just yesterday.

The lawyer added that the next court hearing is scheduled on February 12. He anticipated that the report would be released at that time.

Nikulin was arrested in October 2016 in the Czech Republic and extradited to the United States, where he is accused of hacking into computers belonging to LinkedIn, Dropbox and the Formspring online services.

Russian authorities, who charged Nikulin with internet fraud in 2009, requested his extradition on the same day as the United States, but the Czech Justice Ministry granted the US request.

Nikulin has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.