The judge says that the man accused of penetrating climate groups can be sent to us.

On Wednesday, an English court approved the delivery of an Israeli man accused by New York Public Prosecutors of managing a “rental breakthrough” operation that targets environmental groups.

Prosecutors say that the companies run by the man, Amit Forlet, 57, received at least $ 16 million by penetrating more than 100 victims and stealing secret information on behalf of a pressure company operating in a major oil company.

Mr. Forlit Lawyers identified the company as Exxonmobil in a file of the January Court. Exxon has been sued by Democratic Public Prosecutor and other local officials about its role in climate change. The lawsuits claim that the company covered what it knew about climate change for decades to continue selling oil. The pressure pressure company was identified as the DCI group.

Exxon statement said that the company was not involved and was not aware of any piracy. “If there is any piracy, we condemn this with the strongest possible conditions,” the statement said.

A DCI spokesman, Craig Stevens, said that the company guides employees and consultants to comply with the law and that no person was directed at DCI or was involved in “any penetration that he claimed had happened a decade ago.”

DCI also said, “Volunteer activists to combat oil and billionaire billionaires, many of whom are still sleeping on the family paid by the trust in the energy of fossils, and conspiracy theories” around the company.

This was a clear indication of the role of the Rockefeller family in supporting organizations that defend litigation in climate change. The heirs of John de Rockefeller, who has achieved his wealth in oil more than a century, is leading today, the Rockefeller Family Fund, this He plays a major role in the movement to sue oil companies On climate change. Vaserman, her director, told me that he was targeting piracy.

Mr. Forlit was arrested in London last year after the New York Jury accusing the wire fraud, conspiracy for wire fraud and conspiracy to commit a computer piracy, which may carry a long penalty. His lawyers argued that he should not be delivered because he would not receive a fair trial in the United States because of the political storm ended Climate change litigation.

They argued that “one of the reasons for the prosecution is the advancement of the political motivation case to follow up Exxonmobil, with Mr. Fortlit a form of side damage.”

His lawyers also argued that Mr. Forlit will be in danger at the Capital Detention Center, the only federal prison in New York, which was I was afflicted with violence and functional defect. The prominent defendants who recently detained there, Luigi Mangione, Sam Bankman-PRID and SEAN Combs, also known as Puff Daddy and Didddy.

The Westminster Court rejected the judges of these concerns. Mr. Forlit can appeal the decision. His lawyer did not immediately respond to the requests for comment.

One of the targeted groups was the union of the relevant scientists, which has long discussed the role of fossil fuel industry in what you call get rid of climate science. The group also gives the source of the source, and the use of data to estimate the contributions made by specific companies in the effects of global warming, such as sea level rise or forest fires. Her work was cited in lawsuits against the oil industry.

The organization learned of piracy from the 2020 report by Citizen LAB, a cybersecurity monitoring group at the University of Toronto, according to Cathy Moulifi of the Union of Scientists concerned. The report found this The infiltrators were targeting American non -profit groups Work on a campaign called #EXXONKNEW, which has argued that the company has hidden information about climate change.

Many of the concerned scientists’ employees received suspicious email messages in which the infiltrators tried to deceive them to give up passwords or install harmful programs. Prosecutors at the US Prosecutor’s Office for the Southern Region in New York began the investigation.

A colleague of Mr. Vorlette, Averam Azari, acknowledged that he was guilty in New York in 2023 for crimes, including storming the computer, fraud in wires and stealing identity and was sentenced to six years in prison.

The Filed said that Mr. Forlit has managed three security companies and intelligence gathering, and they are registered in Israel and one in the United States, which rented people to penetrate accounts and email. Its clients included a pressure company in Washington, working on behalf of “one of the largest oil and gas companies in the world, focused in Irfing, Texas, regarding the continuous litigation of climate change against it.” Exxon was headquartered in Irfing.

The pressure company has set the goals for Mr. Forlette, then he gave him or another person a list to Mr. Azari, who owned another company based in Israel and rented people in India to illegally reach accounts. These details were used to obtain documents granted to the oil company and the media to “undermine the integrity of civil investigations,” the file said.