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  1. Boston Marathon bombing.

    Arkady Bukh represented Azamat Tazhayakov, one of the alleged co-conspirators in the Boston Marathon bombing. He was sentenced to 42 months and was released in May 2016.

    Another participant in the crime – Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted of 30 counts and was subsequently sentenced to death. Tsarnaev was represented by the Federal Public Defender’s office.

  2. Alexander Panin

    Russian citizen Alexander Panin created the SpyEye Trojan, which was used to attack online bank accounts. Panin was arrested in 2013 while on vacation in the Dominican Republic and extradited to the United States

    He faced up to 30 years in prison, but following the trial, he was sentenced to 9.5 years.

  3. Igor Klopov

    Russian hacker Igor Klopov, who stole several million dollars from the accounts of millionaires on the Forbes list, faced more than 100 years in prison. The Manhattan prosecutor’s office brought charges on 146 counts. As a result of the trial, Klopov was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison.

  4. Oleg Nikolaenko.

    Nikolaenko, dubbed the “Spam King” by the FBI, was responsible for a third of the world’s spam before his arrest and faced up to 5 years in prison. The court sentenced Nikolaenko to the time he had already served in prison during the investigation and released him in the courtroom.

  5. Vladislav Khorokhorin

    Vladislav Khorokhorin was described by the U.S. Secret Service as one of the five most wanted cybercriminals in the world. Khorokhorin was one of the founders of the online message board CarderPlanet, which united cybercriminals from all over the world, and he faced 62 years in prison. Khorokhorin was sentenced to 88 months in prison and $125,739 in restitution.

  6. Mikhail Rytikov

    In 2013, a federal indictment in the District of New Jersey charged Mikhail Rytikov and four others with conspiring in a worldwide hacking scheme that targeted major corporate networks and stealing over 160 million credit card numbers. It is estimated that hundreds of millions of dollars was stolen, making it the largest such scheme ever prosecuted in the U.S.

  7. Michail Sorodsky

    Sorodsky, who did not have a medical license, received patients at his Brooklyn office, Holistic Skin and Spa Clinic, and promised them that he would cure them of various diseases, including cancer, using unconventional methods. He faced up to 23 years in prison, but following the trial, he was sentenced to 6 years.

  8. Lakhinder Vohra

    Lakhinder Vohra, a Manhattan real estate mogul was accused of raping a woman that he had met on a dating website and arranged to meet at Vohra’s posh Wall Street apartment. Arkady Bukh represented Lohinder Vohra, and the criminal case against him was dropped.

  9. Alexander Yakovlev

    Alexander Yakovlev, former director of the United Nations’ Oil-for-Food Programme in Iraq was accused of taking kickbacks totaling almost $1 million from UN contractors. He faced up to 20 years in prison. As a result of Arkady Bukh’s work, Yakovlev was sentenced 2 years of supervised release and was ordered to forfeit $900 000.