Police arrest Ardit Feriz's brother who is sentenced to 20 years in U.S. for terrorism

Kosovo police have arrested Ardit Feriz's brother from Gjakova, who is currently sentenced to 20 years in prison in the United States for terrorist acts, Kosovo Police have told Radio Free Europe without specifying when the arrest occurred.

While in prison, Ardit Feriz has collaborated with his brother where they committed criminal acts, such as access to personal information from US citizens with the aim of obtaining material, it is said in an indictment filed earlier this month by the US Department of Justice.

Kosovo's “Police have handled several cases where the person in question has been suspected, mainly cases with elements of cyber attacks”, said in a response to Kosovo Police sent REL.

The same “has been arrested as a suspect in these cases, for which at the time of the work being carried out it has been minor. All cases have been prosecuted with criminal snooping in the respective prosecutors”, said further in response.

Police have not indicated what is the role of American authorities in the Kosovo arrest case, but have said that “has had co-operation with other competent institutions and authorities”.

By ActualThe data was stolen between 2017-2019. Ardit Ferizi, although imprisoned in a federal prison, had access to the Internet. According to the indictment, Feriz's brother was also managing his accounts after Feriz wrote to him of “kept active emails and don't let them close” The indictment says that his brother in Kosovo was managing several accounts of the Bitcoin and Etherium cryptos, for which accounts, American authorities say they are stolen.

In addition to cryptova peace accounts, the two brothers are suspected of stealing identifiable personal data, multiple lists of stolen email accounts, partial numbers of credit cards, passwords, and other confidential information.

According to the prosecutor, stealing information was the result of Feriz's criminal activities in retaliation. Based on an address The IP that proved to be from Kosovo was determined that his brother downloaded the databases of information that had been stolen.

Ardit Feriz, 25, is a Kosovo citizen who was deported from Malaysia to the US in 2016 to face charges of terrorism. He was found guilty of unauthorized access to computer information sent to a terrorist group. This data, mainly of American soldiers and government employees, has been passed on to members of the so-called, Islamic State (IS).

In 2016, Feriz was sentenced to 20 years in prison for stealing data from approximately 1,300 people who used .m. and .gov addresses.

After a complaint, his sentence was reduced in December 2020, and he would be known as the time served in US prison. For another ten years, it would be released in Kosovo, but under surveillance. Gjacovar was waiting for deportation to Kosovo, when the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said he had committed other crimes even while in prison.

On January 6th of this year, Feriz had been sent to a detention centre in Pennsylvania, waiting to return Kosovo. If convicted of the new charges, Ardit Feriz could be sentenced to 22 years in prison and a fine of $250,000 US.