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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.
This is an example of the growing problem of government security agencies contracting out services to corporations. Those corporations will always use those associations between individuals built by the contact associated with those contracts to specifically and on purpose corrupt those government officials and agents they work with to serve the short term interests of the corporations and especially the executive teams of those corporations, regardless of the short, medium or long term interests of the country (in fact in crazed risk taking they are more than content to risk the future of the country as whole). So were they spying for foreign government agencies or a multinational corporations with it's corrupt hooks in many countries. The over sized multi-national corporation represent a far greater threat than most other countries, far greater, with objectives like war for war profits sake being by far the greatest threat versus say the somewhat lessor threat of corrupt economic policy designed to impoverish the majority and empower the minority, one power the specifically seek is the power of life or death over others, the thrill kill upon a mass scale.
Government security agencies contract out at the peril of their country and only promote it as a result of in place corruption and corrupt associations, much like the NATO school, where corrupt corporations seek out corrupt individuals in government to promote into higher and higher places of authority to promote the profits of the corporations and as many need to die as need to die in order to maximise the power of those corporate executives (keep in mind we are talking the murder of millions in fake wars constructed in corporate boardrooms).
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The details are in the summary: He and a high-ranking FSB official were laundering money from foreign accounts.
Yawn.
No, that's what he's accused of. Putin has a habit of accusing business people who get in his way or oppose his views of various unrelated high crimes.
Yeah, and the CIA also has a habit of trying to buy off Russian security personnel with money transfers from front companies.
given how fast the company distanced itself from him and stating it was for actions prior to his employment it sounds like this is just another corrupt individual caught up taking bribes from US government. Putin does plenty of shady shit, but that doesn't suddenly make everyone else innocent.
Don't confuse stupid with things like crazy, self-centered, narcissistic, selfish, etc. At least as far as Trump himself is concerned. Don't make the mistake of underestimating him; that's what got him where he is in the first place.
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How is this "informative"? From your perspective, Putin has this habit (an assertion without evidence provided). If true, that doesn't indicate that the accusations are false at all. You make no argument and provide no new information.
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.
That still doesn't make everyone arrested automatically innocent. And given the people involved their seems no political or business reasons to send the police after them. seems more likely these are just individuals caught laundering money from foreign government bribes.
well, if you work for the government security forces and get paid to do things against the said government... most countries would call that treason. The key here is the security forces, that are usually required a total loyalty
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John, your former country needs YOU now more than ever! Only YOU can defeat Trump with his own tenuous grip on reality.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff