A Russian human indicted of working an e-mail spam business that at times accounted for a third of universal spam has pleaded not guilty in a sovereign justice in the US state of Wisconsin.
Oleg Nikolaenko is charged with running a universal network of more than 500,000 virus-infected personal computers, in breach of a US anti-spam law.
Mr Nikolaenko asked to be authorised a form of residence arrest, tentative a trial.
But the panel of judges systematic him hold without bail, statute he was a flight risk.
"He is a inhabitant and proprietor of Russia and the supervision believes, if released, he would look for to lapse there and the supervision wouldn't be able to take to court him," argued prosecutor Erica O'Neil.
The network Mr Nikolaenko is indicted of running, called a botnet, used other people's computers putrescent with rouge ethics to send out billions of e-mails.
Prosecutors mentioned the computers were able of sending up to 10 billion e-mails per day.
Some experts say at a indicate the e-mails bloody out from the network accounted for a in every 3 spam e-mails sent in the world.
Mr Nikolaenko is charged with violating a seven-year-old anti-spam law, the CAN-SPAM Act, by purposely equivocating data in blurb e-mail messages and sending a minimum of 2,500 spam e-mails per day.
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