Three Europeans charged in U.S. for distributing Computer Virus

US prosecutors say that they have charged three men with creating and distributing a virus. That has infected more a million computers around the world.

The suspects are a Russian, a Latvian and a Romanian. They ran a "modern-day bank robbery ring, that required neither a gun or a mask", the prosecutors say.

Name of the virus is Gozi Virus and it was used to access personal bank information and steal millions of dollars in 2005-11.

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Nikita Kuzmin, a 25-year-old Russian national, pleaded guilty to the charges in May 2011, US Attorney Preet Bharara revealed at a news conference in New York on Wednesday.

Extradition proceedings against the other two men - Romania's Mihai Ionut Paunescu, 28, and 27-year-old Deniss Calovskis from Latvia - are now under way.

The ongoing US government investigation alleges that the scheme began in Europe and later spread to the US, where at one stage more than 190 computers belonging to America's Nasa space agency were infected.

They say that Mr Kuzmin and his co-defenders - nicknamed Virus and Miami - have managed to produce at least $50m (£32m) in illegal profits using the virus.