Pharma Wars, Part II
Summary: Russian police detained Dmitry Stupin, known as "SaintD" and a suspected associate of GlavMed and SpamIt proprietor Igor Gusev, pulling him off a plane in Moscow and copying his MacBook, and more than four years of chat logs between Stupin, Gusev and dozens of GlavMed employees were subsequently leaked. In one August 2010 exchange, Gusev says Vrublevsky gave the operation's database of 900,000 records to U.S. authorities and the two discuss shutting down SpamIt, which closed a month later, against debts of $1.1 million to advertisers and $150,000 to suppliers versus $800,000 on hand.
What's compelling: Gusev's own estimate in the logs is that proving a single transaction is enough for a conviction and five-year sentence, and that combined counts could yield five life sentences - which is why the operators weighed closing a business handling 900,000 records rather than keep running it.
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