Their paths sound so similar — two Russian emigres with a talent for numbers who arrived in the United States and quickly moved into the rarefied circles of America’s top investment firms.
But Mikhail Malyshev may now regret having crossed paths with countryman Sergey Aleynikov, a computer programmer he hired for his start-up firm who is now embroiled in one of the highest-profile U.S. corporate espionage cases in years.