Gery Shalon

Gery Shalon, the Georgian-Israeli son of Georgian politician Shota Shalelashvili, was indicted by a US grand jury in 2015 for what was described at the time as “one of the biggest cybercrimes in history.”

Shalon is a key player in a case dating back to August 2014, when the computers of J.P. Morgan, a major US bank, were hacked and personal details were stolen.

The 2014 JPMorgan Chase data breach was a cyberattack against American bank JPMorgan Chase that is believed to have compromised data associated with over 83 million accounts—76 million households (approximately two out of three households in the country) and 7 million small businesses. The data breach is considered one of the most serious intrusions into an American corporation's information system and one of the largest data breaches in history.

After being arrested in his native Israel and extradited to the US, the notorious mastermind behind the JPMorgan hack became what law enforcement calls a "proactive cooperator."

New evidence suggests that while Shalon was working with the FBI, he built a massive new fraud empire in Europe.

The company, Tradologic, which Shalon was found to be running covertly, provided technological infrastructure for fraudulent activity and finance them.