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not going to reschedule the hearing and so the two sides should therefore come to an agreement more or less immediately. This placed Adewale in a very strong position. The judge finally accepted a figure of just over £53,000, which had been whittled down from the initial assessment of £353,067. Taiwo announced that he would not be paying, which meant that he would have to serve an extra year in prison. In fact, on 7th April 2011 he was deported to Nigeria. One of the most intelligent characters to grace the carding boards, Taiwo almost succeeded in sustaining his dual life as a gifted chemical engineer and a cyber criminal.

Detective Sergeant Chris Dawson

DS Chris Dawson had worked on Freddybb’s case with exceptional diligence, putting in many of his own hours to ensure that the jumble of figures, dates and technological detail was comprehensible to any lay person when it reached court. In a break for consultations during Taiwo’s Proceeds of Crime hearing, Dawson thought he heard Taiwo say, ‘Fuck it, I’m not paying.’ When the judge left the courtroom, the detective stormed out in a fury caused by the incompetence of the English judicial system.

He continues to work as a senior homicide officer in Hull.

Dimitry Golubov

Following his arrest in Odessa, the hacker Dimitry Golubov spent five and a half months in prison, during which time he was interrogated by American law-enforcement officials, including Greg Crabb of the US Postal Inspection Service. However, on the intervention of two Ukrainian MPs, he was released and finally exonerated of any wrong-doing by a court in Kiev in 2009.

Six foot two, with a charismatic blue-eyed gaze, Golubov denies any relationship with Script although there are inconsistencies in his version of events, and the digital evidence in the hands of American law enforcement tells a very different story (this included data uncovered on Roman Vega’s computer that Script was Golubov).

Script faded away after his release from custody, but Golubov returned with a renewed commitment to social change and enterprise by forming