{"id":257307,"date":"2025-07-11T22:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T22:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/257307\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T22:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T22:22:10","slug":"france-detains-russian-basketball-player-at-us-request-on-hacking-charge-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/257307\/","title":{"rendered":"France detains Russian basketball player at US request on hacking charge \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe\u2019s not a computer guy,\u201d B\u00e9lot said. \u201cHe didn\u2019t notice any strange behavior on the computer because he doesn\u2019t know how computers work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A French court denied Kasatkin bail on Wednesday, and he remains in jail awaiting formal extradition notification from U.S. authorities, according to B\u00e9lot.<\/p>\n<p>Kasatkin had traveled to France to visit Paris with his fianc\u00e9e and was detained shortly after arriving at the airport.<\/p>\n<p>He played collegiate basketball briefly at Penn State, then four seasons for the Moscow-based MBA-MAI team. B\u00e9lot said Kasatkin\u2019s physical condition has deteriorated in jail, which he argued is harming his athletic career.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Berlinger contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe\u2019s not a computer guy,\u201d B\u00e9lot said. \u201cHe didn\u2019t notice any strange behavior on the computer because he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[13509,2000,299,36,11579,13510,31867,332,93,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-257307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-cybercrime","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-hackers","13":"tag-malware","14":"tag-ransomware","15":"tag-russia","16":"tag-sport","17":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114836939939543229","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}