The decision by a California jury signals the end of a long legal odyssey.

The State Department offered rewards of up to $1 million apiece for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Artem Radchenko and Oleksandr Ieremenko.

Nikulin was one of a handful of Russians extradited to the U.S. amid mounting resistance from the Kremlin.

Judge William Alsup doesn't seem convinced that the government had proved its case against the alleged Russian hacker.

Jurors could sooon be asking themselves the same questions that researchers and government officials have pondered for years: Is this the Russian government, or just some scammers?

The indictment was made public in the run-up to the trial of Yevgeniy Nikulin, who allegedly hacked LinkedIn.

Yevgeniy Nikulin was in regular contact with Oleksandr Ieremenko, a Ukrainian national who allegedly hacked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

The 29-year-old man is accused of an array of crimes stretching back years.

The case of Aleksey Burkov is the most recent example of Russian officials trying to stop an accused cybercriminal from standing trial in the U.S.

The court filing marks the end of a chapter in Yevgeniy Nikulin’s long and strange story.