Germany arrests alleged core Qilin ransomware member after extradition

Germany has arrested a Russian national suspected of being a leading member of the Qilin ransomware group following extradition from Japan earlier this month.

Japan has confirmed the extradition to Germany, with the National Police Agency saying that the suspect was detained after arriving in the country as a tourist.

“When a Russian national for whom Germany had obtained an arrest warrant in connection with a ransomware incident in Germany arrived in Japan, the Japanese Ministry of Justice, the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office, and Germany worked together to detain the suspect under the Extradition Law for Fugitives by obtaining a provisional detention warrant, and then facilitated the extradition,” [machine translated] reads the  press release.