User:Jandrewnelson/sandbox

Early Life and Education

Bukh was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine and lived there until tk when he relocated to the United States. The son of tk and tk, Bukh decided to pursue law as a career when he tk.

Bukh received his J.D. From tk. He also has degrees from tk.

Career

Arkady Bukh is the founding and managing partner in Bukh Law Firm on Wall Street in New York City. A defense attorney, Bukh representents individuals and closely held businesses, family law and several categories within civil law.

Bukh also practices in the areas of complex litigation, general business law, white collar criminal defense, estate planning — to include estate and trust administration, employment law, federal and international taxation and intellectual property.

Many of Mr. Bukh’s cases have had international legal ramifications and law components. The cases he has worked on range from complex litigations involving multi-national parties to claims impacting transnational matters.

Mentions

Mr. Bukh is a frequent commentator on news and talk shows on CBS News, CNN, Fox News and other networks. He regularly authors articles which are featured frequently in China Daily, eWeek, CNN Money, Newsday, Daily News, New York Post, Sydney Morning Herald, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, USAToday, The Washington Post, Reuters, Forbes, Kommersant, The Boston Globe, The Washington Times and others.

Cybercrime

Mr. Bukh has built a stellar reputation within the legal community. Recently, Mr. Bukh represented Azamat Tazhayakov, one of the alleged co-conspirators in the 2013 Boston Bombing.Over the years, he has also represented:

Mr. Bukh has also represented Russian digital pickpockets and international hackers, like Igor Klopov, Oleg Nikolaenko, Dmitry Naskovets, Vlad Horohorin,Vladimir Tsastshin, Aleksandr Panin, Ilya Shinkarenko and others.

Vladimir Tsastshin led an Estonian group that was able to place banners on the websites of unsuspecting webmasters which resulted in payment for any clicks going not to the site owner but to the fraudsters. Additionally, Tsastshin was able to manipulate queries and ads and resell them.

Aleksandr Panin created the SpyEye Trojan which was used to attack online bank accounts. Panin was arrested in 2013 in the Dominican Rebpulic while on vacation. Trapped in an FBI sting, Panin was extradited to the US on charges of distributing SpyEye between 2009 and 2011.

Ilya Shinkarenko

Igor Klopov, targeted Forbes 400 individuals including a close friend of former President George W. Bush; Oleg Nikolaenko, dubbed “King of Spam” by the FBI. Nikolaenko was responsible for one-third of the world’s spam before being arrested in 2009.

Dmitry Naskovets ran a website that was an online garage sale for identify thieves. Designed to bypass the normal security measures that banks and businesses have, Naskovets helped over 2,000 hackers swipe millions of dollars.

Finally, Vlad Horohorin, who was described by the US Secret Service as one of its five most wanted cyber criminals globally.

Sergey Tsurikov led a ring that hacked into RSB ATM’s and walked away with a cool $9.5 million dollars over a twelve-hour period;

Dmitry Smilyanets, most widely known as the founder of a championship electronic gaming team called Moscow 5, traveled the world for competitions. Smilyanets was able to steal over 130 million credit cards.

Other Crime

Azamat Tazhayakov, convicted co-conspirator involved with the Boston Marathon bombing in April 2013. Tazhayakov is scheduled to be sentenced in October 2014.

Lak Vokra, 47, a Manhattan real estate mogul accused of raping a woman that he had met on a “sugar daddy” website. Vokra, stocky and bearded, had often posted images on his website and Facebook page showing him partying and socializing with scantily clad women.

Alexander Yakovlev, former director of the United Nation’s oil-for-food program in Iraq, was accused of taking kickbacks totally almost one million dollars from UN contractors. Dr. Sorodsky

Victor Koltun, a Brooklyn rabbi, was sentence to life in prison for a double murder-for-hire plot that left two Newburgh men dead. Koltun paid to have former police officer Francis Piscopo and his nephew Gerald killed to avoid paying a debt.

Other representations include cases related to federal jurisdiction regarding foreign defendants, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, RICO and the application of the ATA.

Personal Life

Mr. Bukh is married to the former tk and has tk children.