Ilmārs Poikāns (born November 4, 1978) is a Latvian AI researcher at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Latvia. He has used the pseudonym Neo (of

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), and is also known in the press as Latvia's "Robin Hood". Poikans alleged that both Valdis Dombrovskis, who is a

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, and the Bank of Latvia Governor Ilmars Rimsevics, who is a member of the council of

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, supported the fraud conducted at Parex Bank and that Rimsevics received a very large sum for his efforts.

Allegations of illegal access to tax records

Ilmārs Poikāns was arrested and later released; prosecutors released a statement saying "Taking into consideration his attitude, his confession of the crime, and his cooperation in the investigation, we did not seek his pre-trial detention." Some allege that the arrest came as a result of a search of TV journalist Ilze Nagla's house on Tuesday May 11, 2010. After his arrest there were reports of a flash mob outside the government's cabinet office. Ilmārs is alleged to have illegally accessed 7.5 million tax records and divulged pay rises for some high-ranking public sector employees, while rank-and-file employees were forced to take pay cuts as high as 30%. Poikāns was granted a presidential pardon on December 18, 2017.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Poikans, Ilmars Living people Latvian computer scientists 1978 births Hackers Hacking in the 2000s University of Latvia alumni Academic staff of the University of Latvia