MOSCOW, Seprember 25 (RAPSI) – Accused Russian hacker Roman Seleznev has filed an affidavit with the Federal Court of Washington at Seattle concerning his mistreatment at Federal Detention Center (FDC) Seatac, according to the copy of the affidavit obtained by RAPSI on Thursday.

According to Seleznev’s attorney Anna Goykhman, the FDC authorities disrupt her communication with the client who is being held at the special housing unit. Goykhman claims that a letter she placed in the mail to be given to Seleznev arrived to him already opened. Despite the attorney’s request to meet Seleznev in the regular visiting room, she was taken to the special housing unit where she only could converse with her client through the telephone.

FDC staff proposed that all the papers, including confidential, that had to be signed by Seleznev would be transferred through the staff, with the promise that “they won’t read them”.

Moscow-born Roman Seleznev, 30, the son of Liberal Democratic Party State Duma deputy Valery Seleznev, has been charged with hacking into retail cash register systems to install malicious software to steal credit card numbers and with operating servers and international carding forum websites to facilitate the theft and sale of stolen credit card data. He was arrested on the Maldive Islands and taken to Guam, an unincorporated US territory in the western Pacific.

His father, lawmaker Valery Seleznev, is worried that Roman, who received a serious brain injury after a terrorist attack in Morocco in 2011, could die in custody if denied medical care.