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However, Nikulin wrote in a letter from prison that Miller had interrogated
him in Prague on 7 February and raised the election hacking. Excerpts of
the letter were provided to the Guardian by Nikulins lawyers, but there is
no way of substantiating the claims he made.
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The document states that Nikulin was read his rights, insisted he was not
guilty of the charges, and that the interrogation was concluded after just 29
minutes.
One theory is that the FBI is rounding up Russian hackers in the hope they
may know others who were involved in the election hacking. A Russian
computer programmer was arrested in Barcelona in April.
My guess in both of these cases is that US intelligence has only now started
gathering intelligence about Russian hackers and how they work with the
security services, and they want to use these guys to extract info out of
them, said Andrei Soldatov, a specialist on the Russian security services.