Arkady Bukh

Arkady Bukh is an American criminal defense attorney. He is best known for representing Azamat Tazhayakov, a college student charged with conspiring to obstruct justice with the intent to impede a terrorism investigation in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing.

Cyber crime:
Bukh has also represented international hackers, like Alexander Vinnik, Igor Klopov, Oleg Nikolaenko, Dmitry Naskovets, Vlad Horohorin, Vladimir Tsastsin, Aleksandr Panin, Maksym Shynkarenko, and others.

Arkady Bukh is widely recognized as one of the most experienced attorneys in the United States, with an astounding record of courtroom victories. Arkady has represented over 1,500 clients, including individuals, corporations and governments, combining impeccable knowledge of the law with the skills of an experienced negotiator and a courageous fighter in the courtroom.

Since 2003, the team of highly qualified attorneys at Bukh Law Firm has been working diligently to ensure that clients' cases are resolved as efficiently as possible and in accordance with their expectations. Today, Bukh Law Firm has a partner network of licensed attorneys throughout the United States.

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Case Results:

Zhanna Matsenko
The lawyers at Arkady Bukh Law Firm have succeeded in refusing to recognize and enforce a Russian court decision in the United States to impose subsidiary liability on Zhanna Matsenko.

Importance for international bankruptcy
Until now, there have been no cases pending before American courts to enforce a Russian court decision to impose subsidiary liability, so this is effectively the first unsuccessful attempt by Russian creditors to collect subsidiary liability in the United States.

Boston Marathon bombing.
Arkady Bukh represented Azamat Tazhayakov, one of the alleged co-conspirators in the Boston Marathon bombing. He was sentenced to 42 months and was released in May 2016.

Another participant in the crime – Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted of 30 counts and was subsequently sentenced to death. Tsarnaev was represented by the Federal Public Defender’s office.

Alexander Vinnik
Alexander Vinnik was charged in the United States with laundering between $4 billion and $9 billion through the BTC-E crypto exchange and distributing malware for the purpose of extortion.

Alexander Vinnik was facing up to 100 years in prison, but in February 2025, the criminal case against Alexander was dropped and he was released from a U.S. prison and transferred to the Russian Federation in exchange for American Mark Vogel, who is serving time in a Russian prison.

Igor Klopov
Russian hacker Igor Klopov, who stole several million dollars from the accounts of millionaires on the Forbes list, faced more than 100 years in prison. The Manhattan prosecutor’s office brought charges on 146 counts. As a result of the trial, Klopov was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison.

Oleg Nikolaenko.
Nikolaenko, dubbed the “Spam King” by the FBI, was responsible for a third of the world’s spam before his arrest and faced up to 5 years in prison. The court sentenced Nikolaenko to the time he had already served in prison during the investigation and released him in the courtroom.

Vladislav Khorokhorin
Vladislav Khorokhorin was described by the U.S. Secret Service as one of the five most wanted cybercriminals in the world. Khorokhorin was one of the founders of the online message board CarderPlanet, which united cybercriminals from all over the world, and he faced 62 years in prison. Khorokhorin was sentenced to 88 months in prison and $125,739 in restitution.

Mikhail Rytikov
In 2013, a federal indictment in the District of New Jersey charged Mikhail Rytikov and four others with conspiring in a worldwide hacking scheme that targeted major corporate networks and stealing over 160 million credit card numbers. It is estimated that hundreds of millions of dollars was stolen, making it the largest such scheme ever prosecuted in the U.S.

Alexander Panin
Russian citizen Alexander Panin created the SpyEye Trojan, which was used to attack online bank accounts. Panin was arrested in 2013 while on vacation in the Dominican Republic and extradited to the United States

He faced up to 30 years in prison, but following the trial, he was sentenced to 9.5 years.

Michail Sorodsky
Sorodsky, who did not have a medical license, received patients at his Brooklyn office, Holistic Skin and Spa Clinic, and promised them that he would cure them of various diseases, including cancer, using unconventional methods. He faced up to 23 years in prison, but following the trial, he was sentenced to 6 years.

Lakhinder Vohra
Lakhinder Vohra, a Manhattan real estate mogul was accused of raping a woman that he had met on a dating website and arranged to meet at Vohra’s posh Wall Street apartment. Arkady Bukh represented Lohinder Vohra, and the criminal case against him was dropped.

Alexander Yakovlev
Alexander Yakovlev, former director of the United Nations’ Oil-for-Food Programme in Iraq was accused of taking kickbacks totaling almost $1 million from UN contractors. He faced up to 20 years in prison. As a result of Arkady Bukh’s work, Yakovlev was sentenced 2 years of supervised release and was ordered to forfeit $900 000.

Practice areas:

White-Collar crimes
Felony
Federal crimes
Litigation
Sanctions Law
Cyber Crime
Cryptocurrency and Crypto Law
Cyber Law
Deportation defense
Extradition to the United States
Family Law
Real Estate
Construction
Arbitration
Appellate Practice
Bankruptcy Fraud