NCA Boss Says Agency Had No Power to Prosecute Russian Cyber Gang

NCA Boss Says Agency Had No Power to Prosecute Russian Cyber Gang
A computer keyboard is lit by a displayed cyber code in this picture taken on March 1, 2017. Kacper Pempel/Illustration/Reuters
Lily Zhou
Updated:

Russian hackers who were sanctioned for targeting hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic couldn’t be prosecuted because the National Crime Agency (NCA) lacks the legal power, the head of the agency said.

NCA Director General Graeme Biggar told a joint committee of parliamentarians that the agency would “very much like” its extraterritorial jurisdiction expanded so it can extradite foreign cybercriminals.