The court in the United States has recognized the Russian programmer guilty of stealing code – Interfax

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Sergey Aleynikov previously sentenced to eight years in prison, but then canceled the appeal that decision

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Moscow. May 1st. INTERFAX.RU – New York court found the native of Russia Sergey Aleynikov guilty of stealing source of high-frequency trading system. This According to Bloomberg.

Aleinikova thus acquitted on charges of illegal duplication of computer material. There was yet a third charge – illegal use of secret scientific material – but at this point the jury could not decide.

Protect programmer claimed that copying the code was not illegal, even though the bank violated the rules. Nevertheless, the jury decided that it’s still a crime.

Earlier Aleinikova judge federal court in Manhattan. In 2011, he was found guilty in the transportation of stolen property and economic espionage. Then he was given eight years, of which Aleynikov served only 11 months – the verdict overturned on appeal.

Aleinikova blamed that on the last day of work at Goldman Sachs, June 5, 2009, he secretly siphoned a server in Germany thousands of files a trading program, which the bank has spent hundreds of millions of dollars.

The history of Russian programmer was the basis of the book of journalist Michael Lewis Flash Boys (in Russian translation – “faster than boys. High-revolution on Wall Street»).