So, does it look like Dmitry was detained only due to his DefCon presentation?
Probably yes. Though he introduced himself as an Elcomsoft employee, the company that developed the product. What are your lawers saying? Our lawers were notified on arrest in the evening, when everything was closed down already. That’s how it was developing: after I received the email, I called the Russian Consulate. They proposed to wait until noon at consulate, assuming that the Americans would let Dmitry board the flight en-route LAX, where Aeroflot flight would bring him back to Russia. But he did not show up at the airport, so the consulate initialized a standard offical request to American authorities. They spent around two hours on that and we all realized that Dmitry will not fly away for sure. In fact we even did not know where Dmitry was physically located. At around 2pm the request was filed but not till the end of working day, till 6pm was there any answer. So on Monday we had no info. Tuesday morning, when our office had started its new working day in Moscow, Dmitry’s wif
