Ruslan Stoyanov


Ruslan Stoyanov is a Russian computer scientist. In December 2016, he was arrested on charges of treason. In 2019, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Career

From around 2000 to 2006, Stoyanov worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs 's cybercrime unit.
In 2010, Stoyanov was reportedly the owner of Indrik, a computer crime investigative firm, until it was bought by Kaspersky Labs in 2012. From then on, he worked in the computer incident investigation department of Kaspersky Labs until his arrest in 2016.

Arrest

In early December 2016, Stoyanov was arrested by the FSB on charges of treason.

Conviction

In February 2019, a Moscow court convicted Stoyanov of high treason, and sentenced him to 14 years in prison.
He was alleged to have caused Russian state secrets about Pavel Vrublevsky's company, ChronoPay, to be passed along to the FBI.

Hospitalization

In October 2018, Stoyanov had reportedly suffered a pulmonary embolism.