Roman Seleznev, 32, was found guilty last year by a jury in Seattle of perpetrating a scheme that prosecutors said involved hacking into point-of-sale computers to steal credit card numbers and caused $169 million in losses to US firms.
The Russian Government has maintained that his arrest in 2014 in the Maldives was illegal.
It has issued a statement criticising the sentence.
“We continue to believe that the arrest of the Russian citizen Roman Seleznev… was kidnapped on the territory of a third country, is unlawful,” the Russian Embassy in Washington said.
Seleznev is the son of Valery Seleznev, a member of the Russian parliament.
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