Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives by U.S Secret Service (2024 Update)
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Investigations by the FBI and CIA have centered more on apprehending and neutralizing terrorists in recent years than on domestic criminal activity.
Therefore, the amount of terrorists (including Muslim extremists, cyberterrorists, and hackers) on the most wanted list has changed, but mobsters, gang leaders, and serial killers are still always included. However, as the FBI has stated, "To protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats and to enforce the criminal laws of the United States" is at the core of its work.
What is a US fugitive?
"Any person who has fled from any State to avoid prosecution for a crime or avoid giving testimony in any criminal proceeding" is the definition of a fugitive from justice under 18 U.S.C. § 921.
What happens when you go on the run from the law?
Usually, the penalty is penalties, but if you were running really seriously—for example, by attempting to flee the country—you might even go to jail. You should anticipate spending the rest of your trial in custody if you are apprehended after trying to flee from your trial.
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Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives In The US 2024
1. Denis Gennadievich KULKOV
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DOB: April 8, 1980
NATIONALITY: Russia
CITIZENSHIP: Russia
HEIGHT: 5’7”
WEIGHT: 170 lbs
HAIR COLOR: Black/Balding
EYE COLOR: Brown
U.S. SECRET SERVICE FIELD OFFICE: New York
Denis Gennadievich Kulkov is accused of access device fraud, computer intrusion, and money laundering in connection with his operation of Try2Check, the main service providing "card-checking" to cybercriminals in the stolen credit card trade. The indictment was unsealed by the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York on May 3, 2023.
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2. Oleksii Volodymyrovych BYSTROV
DOB: April 22, 1983
NATIONALITY: Ukraine
CITIZENSHIP: Ukraine
HEIGHT: N/A
WEIGHT: N/A
HAIR COLOR: Brown
EYE COLOR: Brown
U.S. SECRET SERVICE FIELD OFFICE: San Francisco
According to the indictment in this case, Oleksii Volodymyrovych Bystrov and his accomplices allegedly obtained the login credentials for many online banking accounts belonging to customers of a U.S. financial institution through fraud between August 2011 and March 2013. Bystrov and his collaborators used those credentials to create ACH (Automated Clearing House) links between the victim accounts and destination accounts under their control, all without the knowledge or consent of the legitimate account owner.
Bystrov and his associates then caused and attempted to cause the U.S. financial institution to execute wire transfers into bank accounts under the control of Bystrov and his associates, all while falsely representing themselves as the legitimate customers of the aforementioned financial institution. Additionally, Bystrov and his accomplices substituted phone numbers and email addresses controlled by the fraudsters for the verification phone numbers and email addresses on the victim accounts. The conspirators attempted to avoid bank monitoring of the unlawful fund transfers in this way.
3. Vitaly Nikolayevich KOVALEV
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DOB: June 23, 1988
NATIONALITY: Russia
CITIZENSHIP: Russia
HEIGHT: 5’11”
WEIGHT: 160 lbs
HAIR COLOR: Brown
EYE COLOR: Brown
U.S. SECRET SERVICE FIELD OFFICE: Newark
Vitaly Nikolayevich Kovalev was charged in February 2012 by a federal grand jury in the District of New Jersey with eight counts of bank fraud and conspiracy to commit bank fraud in relation to a series of bank account intrusions that occurred in 2009 and 2010 at various U.S.-based financial institutions.
Kovalev and his accomplices are accused in the indictment of being able to obtain unlawful access to accounts maintained by at least three separate financial organizations with headquarters in the United States. After gaining access to the accounts, Kovalev and other others transferred money illegally into other bank accounts that Kovalev had set up and directed, with the express intent of obtaining the stolen money. Kovalev would then order the money to be taken out of these accounts or moved away. Kovalev and his accomplices were able to withdraw around $1 million from the victim's bank accounts without permission in total.
4. Tim Vakhaevich STIGAL
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DOB: April 19, 1978
NATIONALITY: Russia
CITIZENSHIP: Russia
HEIGHT: 5’8”
WEIGHT: 200 lbs
HAIR COLOR: Black / Grey / Balding
EYE COLOR: Brown
U.S. SECRET SERVICE FIELD OFFICE: Newark
Tim Vakhaevich Stigal is accused of being a part of four different conspiracies between April 2014 and March 2016 to traffic in stolen credit card information from customers of at least three different corporate victims spread across the US. Stigal also sent a threat to compromise the security of the stolen personal data of the corporate victim's clients if a ransom was not paid to him in connection with one of the conspiracies and in an effort to coerce one of the corporate victims.
Twelve counts of wire fraud, one act of computer fraud extortion, three counts of access device fraud, four counts of wire fraud conspiracy, and three counts of aggravated identity theft are all brought against Stigal.
5. Aleksey Viktorovich BILYUCHENKO
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NATIONALITY: Russia
CITIZENSHIP: Russia
HEIGHT: N/A
WEIGHT: N/A
HAIR COLOR: Brown
EYE COLOR: Brown
U.S. SECRET SERVICE FIELD OFFICE: San Francisco
Court records from the Northern District of California that were made public on June 7, 2023, claim that Aleksey Bilyuchenko collaborated with Alexander Vinnik and other individuals to run the BTC-e exchange from 2011 until it was shut down by authorities in July 2017. One of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world at the time, BTC-e served as a major hub for cybercriminals to store, transfer, and launder the money obtained from their illicit operations.
Over a million consumers globally were served by BTC-e, which handled billion-dollar transactions and millions of bitcoin in deposits and withdrawals. BTC-e obtained illicit earnings from many ransomware attacks, identity theft schemes, corrupt public officials, drug delivery rings, and computer intrusions and hacking incidents.
6. Ivan Sergiyovich TURCHYNOV
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DOB: June 11, 1987
NATIONALITY: Moldova/Romania/Ukraine
CITIZENSHIP: Moldova/Romania/Ukraine
HEIGHT: N/A
WEIGHT: N/A
HAIR COLOR: Blonde
EYE COLOR: Blue/green
U.S. SECRET SERVICE FIELD OFFICE: Newark
According to the indictment in this case, Ivan Sergiyovich Turchynov and his accomplices allegedly began an international computer hacking and fraudulent securities trading scheme on or around February 2010, whereby they: (a) gained access to the computer networks of Marketwired, PR Newswire, and Business Wire; (b) took press releases that contained material non-public information from the internal computer networks of the victim companies before they were made public; and (c) traded ahead of the material non-public information in the stolen releases before it was distributed.
The co-conspirators accessed over 150,000 stolen releases during the course of the conspiracy, and they made profitable trades using the significant non-public information found in those releases. The plan brought in over $30 million in earnings from illegal trading overall.
7. Pavel Pavlovich DUBOVOY
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DOB: February 18, 1983
NATIONALITY: Ukraine
CITIZENSHIP: Ukraine
HEIGHT: 6’0”
WEIGHT: 200 lbs
HAIR COLOR: Brown
EYE COLOR: Blue
U.S. SECRET SERVICE FIELD OFFICE: Newark
According to the indictment in this case, starting on or around February 2010, Pavel Pavlovich Dubovoy and his accomplices are accused of participating in an international computer hacking and fraudulent securities trading scheme in which they: (a) gained access to the computer networks of Marketwired, PR Newswire, and Business Wire; (b) took press releases that contained material non-public information from the internal computer networks of the victim companies before they were made public; and (c) traded ahead of the material non-public information in the stolen releases before it was distributed.
The co-conspirators accessed over 150,000 stolen releases during the course of the conspiracy, and they made profitable trades using the significant non-public information found in those releases. The plan brought in over $30 million in earnings from illegal trading overall.
8. Maksym YASTREMSKIY
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DOB: November 6, 1982
NATIONALITY: Ukraine
CITIZENSHIP: Ukraine
HEIGHT: 5’8”
WEIGHT: 150 lbs
HAIR COLOR: Blonde
EYE COLOR: Blue
U.S. SECRET SERVICE FIELD OFFICE: San Diego
Maksym Yastremskiy and a co-defendant were charged with wire fraud conspiracy, wire fraud, conspiracy to possess unauthorized access devices, access device fraud, aggravated identity theft, conspiracy to commit computer fraud, computer fraud, and counts of interception of electronic communications in a 27-count indictment unsealed by the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York on May 12, 2008.
Yastremskiy and other individuals are accused of participating in a conspiracy whereby they broke into cash register terminals at various restaurants across the US to get credit and debit card information associated with "Track 2." The financial institutions that provided the credit and debit cards suffered damages as a result of the defendants' sale of the stolen data to third parties who either used it themselves or resold it to make fraudulent purchases.
9. Mikhaylo Sergiyovich RYTIKOV
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DOB: May 25, 1987
NATIONALITY: Ukraine
CITIZENSHIP: Ukraine
HEIGHT: N/A
WEIGHT: N/A
HAIR COLOR: Brown
EYE COLOR: Blue
U.S. SECRET SERVICE FIELD OFFICE: Newark
According to the indictment in this case, Mykhaylo Sergiyovich Rytikov and other co-conspirators ran a well-known hacking group in the District of New Jersey from at least August 2005 until on or around July 2012, which is when several of the biggest known data breaches occurred. The defendants and their accomplices used a variety of strategies to break into the protected computer networks of some of the biggest retailers, financial institutions, and payment processing organizations in the world, steal other people's personally identifiable information, and more. As part of these operations, Rytikov leased hacking platforms to other conspirators so they could attack target networks. Rytikov did this by serving as a vendor of computer and server infrastructure.
10. Leonid Vladimirovich SOKOLOV
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DOB: April 28, 1983
NATIONALITY: Russia
CITIZENSHIP: Russia
HEIGHT: N/A
WEIGHT: N/A
HAIR COLOR: Brown
EYE COLOR: Brown
U.S. SECRET SERVICE FIELD OFFICE: New York
The Southern District of New York issued an arrest warrant for Leonid Vladimirovich Sokolov on April 7, 2011, in connection with Indictment 11 Cr. 322, which alleges that between January 2010 and February 2011, both inside and outside of the Southern District of New York, Sokolov and others conspired to hack the computer systems of at least 69 merchant locations, including restaurants and hotels, in order to steal credit and debit card data, including
More than $6 million in losses are allegedly the consequence of Sokolov and associates selling the compromised card data to co-conspirators, who then allegedly sold the card data to additional co-conspirators and/or made purchases and charges without authorization. Sokolov and associates carried out the fraud scheme by breaking into the computerized point of sale systems of the targeted retailers and implanting malware that was meant to capture network credentials, including as passwords and usernames, along with credit and debit card information.
Conclusion
The people listed above are regarded as dangerous and armed. Never try to capture any of these runaways on your own.
Anyone with information is encouraged to report it via USMS Tips, the United States Marshals Service Communications Center at 1-800-336-0102, or the closest United States Marshals Service District Office.
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