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by R0b0t1 1561 days ago
It depends? One should wonder why no effort was made to suggest he return further east, perhaps to Russia. It is possibly an oversight. But there were other individuals who I think were turned over to Western authorities.

From my time with game modding and cheat development communities, there's some subset that is hyperfocused on money and develops a lack of morals. Some of them eventually get into CC fraud, malware, and other cybercrime for profit. A lot of them never get arrested. At best they're just insufferable assholes, but generally they're not the type of person that is a reliable worker. Basically the same reason you don't want to press a prisoner into military service.