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Russia Arrests Top Kaspersky Lab Security Researcher On Charges of Treason (bleepingcomputer.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: Russian authorities arrested Ruslan Stoyanov, one of Kaspersky Lab's top-ranked security researchers, under article 275 of the Russian criminal code, which refers to treason. According to Russian newspaper Kommersant, who broke the story today, Stoyanov was arrested in December, together with the head of the Russian Secret Service (FSB) information security department Sergei Mikhailov. In a statement released today by Kaspersky Lab, the company says that Stoyanov was arrested based on activities he partook in before joining the company. Details regarding the investigation are murky, but according to the Russian newspaper who quotes anonymous sources, Stoyanov was involved in facilitating the transfer of funds from foreign companies to Mikhailov's accounts. According to Stoyanov's LinkedIn account, before serving as Head of the Computer Incidents Investigation Team at Kaspersky, he worked as Deputy Director for a company called Indrik, but also as a Major in the Ministry of Interior's Cyber Crime Unit.
It's a stock Putin trick:
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/how-putin-uses-money-laundering-charges-to-control-his-opponents/277903/
" Last Thursday, Sergei Magnitsky was convicted of tax evasion. The only problem was he was not there to hear the verdict read. Magnitsky was killed in Moscow's Butyrka prison in 2009, likely as a result of beatings and a lack of medical treatment. His crime was uncovering a $230 million tax fraud involving members of the government while working as a lawyer for William Browder (an American investor who was also convicted in absentia)."
"But Magnitsky's conviction is not simply an example of the capricious nature of the legal system in Russia; it is a view into how the use of money laundering, financial laws, and Russia's financial intelligence unit are used to control political dissent. "
EXPECT A LOT MORE.
Trump has access to ALL the names of CIA spies in Russia names and their details. So you can expect him to obtain those names, and hand them over to Putin in exchange for personal leverage. These two will just be the two sources quoted in the pee memos. Those source the CIA and MI6 considered reliable known agents will only be the first.
Likewise his GOP and Democrat opponents can expect an increase in domestic surveillance of their activities, from Trump aparchniks (go look it up, nothing is new, Russia took over democracies before exactly the same way). There was a very good reason we put in the checks and balances on surveillance, and this is it. You can't have a President with access to a spying machine outside of the USA law (the FSB), and domestic spying machine with minimal checks and balances, in the Oval Office (NSA), and have the ability to block defence of US cyberspace from Russian attack.
He used Russian hackers, and Russian botnet programmers for the last election, he'll use them for the next election. And he'll have the power to block the government from defending the election or investigating the hacks.
He's SOURCE B, read the memo's, he fits the description.
page 1: "Speaking to a trusted compatriot in June 2016, sources A and B, a senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure and former top level Russian Intelligence Officer".
Source B will be the Kaspersky man arrested.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html
Page 2. "The Moscow Ritz Carlton episode involving TRUMP reported above was confirmed by Source E..."
Source E, is FSB man, known to CIA and MI6 and considered reliable, so he will be Sergei Mikhailov who was arrested.
Source F was a hotel staffer who confirmed it, so you'll see people having accidents at the Ritz Carlton soon enough.
Source D is an associate of Trump's, if he's Russian, he'll be found dead, if he's American, well, Putin has killed opponents with polonium poisoning in the UK, so I don't think the USA if off bounds now with Trump in power.
Source A, the Russian Foreign Office official whose a CIA spy, hasn't yet been arrested, but I'm guessing he'll be found dead too.
Trump men will have gone into the CIA and asked for the names of these people, then provided those names by his backchannel to Putin to be fixed. That is what we're seeing now. This is the currency they've been using in exchange for Putin's help with the elections. Trump spies for them, mostly on Oligarchs (think hidden cameras in hotel rooms), and they helped him get into the office. Now he has access to all that intelligence, he can barter that too in exchange for further help securing power, and undermining opponents.
If you read the intelligence memo that accuses Trump of working with the FSB to win the election.
Ruslan Stoyanov fits SOURCE B, read the memo's:.
page 1: "Speaking to a trusted compatriot in June 2016, sources A and B, a senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure and former top level Russian Intelligence Officer".
Source B will be the Kaspersky man arrested, ex top level intelligence officer arrested shortly after Trump's inauguration, when Trump gets access to the names of spies that America has in Russia.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html
Page 2. "The Moscow Ritz Carlton episode involving TRUMP reported above was confirmed by Source E..."
Source E, is FSB man, known to CIA and MI6 and considered reliable, so he will be Sergei Mikhailov who was arrested.
Source F was a hotel staffer who confirmed it, Source D is an associate of Trump's, Source A, the Russian Foreign Office official.
If you remember Trump's comments to Richard Brandson: "Donald Trump told Richard Branson during their first encounter that he would spend the remainder of his life trying to destroy five people he had asked to no avail to aid him after his latest bankruptcy.". Trump is all about revenge and attack anyone who isn't 100% on Trump message.
Do you think Trump wouldn't immediately take steps to attack the spies who leaked details of his piss sex sessions to the CIA? Of course he would. He'll have obtained the names of these sources from the CIA (they are known reliable spies for the CIA), and he'll have passed those to Putin by his co-operation back-channel.
So it's no surprise to see an FSB agent and a former intelligence man arrested immediately after Trump takes office and gains access to intelligence names.
Those intelligence memos were from a known reliable analyst quoting known reliable Russia spy sources. The memos cited two way cooperation between Trump camp (via Manafort and Carter Page) and Putin's FSB for mutual gain.
I don't know where you get the 'insane conspiracy theory' stuff from, this is Occam Razor, as soon as Trump takes power, and put his operatives into the CIA, people fitting the descriptions of sources for the Trump memo are arrested in Russia.
Motive, opportunity, means, a pattern of revenge, a loyal defender of Putin, a vigorous attacker of, well, CIA, Democrats, Republicans, Washington insiders. Can you imagine any case where Trump has the names of his accusers and a means to get back at them, and doesn't take it? So of course he's a traitor.