A suspected internet fraudster wanted by the United States, who is alleged to have worked for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has been arrested in Montenegro.
Officers from a special task force took the 39-year-old man, who holds both Iranian and Turkish citizenship, into custody in the coastal town of Kotor after an arrest warrant was issued by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Montenegrin Ministry of the Interior said in a statement on Friday.
The man is alleged to have carried out large-scale cyberattacks on the infrastructure of over 150 universities in the US since 2013 on behalf of an Iranian company. He is said to have caused damage estimated at $3.4 billion.
The stolen data allegedly benefited the IRGC, Iranian universities and other organizations in the country.
The authorities have taken the necessary steps to extradite the alleged cybercriminal to the US, the statement added.
