[3] Seleznev was arrested on July 5, 2014, while vacationing in the Maldives, and was sentenced to 27 years in prison for wire fraud, intentional damage to a protected computer, and identity theft.

[4] He began his activities in early 2003 on the credit card fraud site CarderPlanet, providing paid Social Security numbers and criminal-history research using (among others) stolen LexisNexis accurint.com accounts.

BadB, a cybercriminal identified in 2009 as Vladislav Horohorin, provided Seleznev with an automated script to look for credit card traces in systems and networks.

[9] The Russian Foreign Ministry criticized the island country for failing to follow "international legal norms",[10] which prosecutors said was justified based on the noncooperation of the FSB in 2009 and the scope of Seleznev's crimes.

[5] As the Maldives does not have an extradition treaty with the United States, the USSS negotiated directly with the Maldivian government to arrange an expulsion of Seleznev into U.S. law enforcement custody, from which he was sent to Guam to await trial.

[3][15] On May 19, 2017, Seleznev faced charges in Atlanta[16] and Nevada;[17] he pled guilty that September to conspiracy to commit bank fraud,[18] and was sentenced to 14 years in prison in November.

[21][22] Family members of Paul Whelan, who was arrested in 2018 for espionage in Moscow, and sentenced to 16 years in prison, said that Whelan had initially been told that he had been arrested to be exchanged for a Russian prisoner in the United States, mentioning Konstantin Yaroshenko (who was later released in return for American Trevor Reed), Viktor Bout (who was later released in exchange for American women's basketball player Brittney Griner), or Roman Seleznev.