The ex-colonel of the FSB extorted 40 million rubles from Lanit. for non-publication of compromising evidence on a controlled Telegram channel

Kommersant.Ru, 07/15/2023, “Kremlin laundress admin arrested for two months on extortion case”: According to the court, Mr. Polyakov now works as deputy head of the ANO “Directorate of the World Youth Festival”, Mr. Sanin is the general director of LLC PSK “Heritage”, which is engaged in the sale of equipment for general industrial and special purposes. […]

According to investigators, the defendants extorted 40 million rubles. from the management of the Lanit IT company. “From 2020 to 2023. Polyakov received a large sum of money from a group of IT companies for not publishing information (the so-called “block on the negative”) that could cause significant harm to the rights and legitimate interests of JSC,” the press service of the Moscow courts of general jurisdiction said in a statement. Telegram. According to some sources, the defendants pleaded not guilty.

The World Festival of Youth and Students (WFYS) has been held irregularly since 1947. It was first held in Prague. The last, 19th festival was held in October 2017 in Sochi. In 2024, according to the decree of President Vladimir Putin, it should be held in Sochi from February 20 to March 10. — Inset K.ru

histories.media, 07/15/2023, “Source of “Important stories”: the arrested FSB colonel Polyakov worked in the Office for the Protection of the Constitutional System of the FSB in Moscow and the region”: Detained on July 14 in Moscow, FSB Colonel Mikhail Polyakov, whom the media calls the administrator of the telegram channel “Kremlin Laundress”, until 2022 headed one of the services in the Office for the Protection of the Constitutional System of the FSB in Moscow and the Moscow Region, said a source close to the special services of “Vazhnykh stories.” According to our interlocutor, Polyakov oversaw the pro-government Telegram channels in agreement with the First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Sergei Kirienko. The former FSB colonel worked together with Alexei Goreslavsky, head of the Internet Development Institute and former head of the Dialog ANO. Structures under the leadership of Goreslavsky were engaged in promoting the Kremlin agenda in the media and social networks.

Polyakov was arrested for starting to “do business” on pro-Kremlin telegram channels without the consent of the leadership, a source told Important Stories. Earlier, information appeared on social networks that Polyakov allegedly sold the so-called negative blocks, that is, the obligation not to mention the names of individual politicians and businessmen in a negative way in the telegram network. […]

The service for the protection of the constitutional order of the FSB (Second Service) is considered the successor of the Fifth Directorate of the KGB of the USSR, which was engaged in the fight against “ideological sabotage”. The metropolitan department of this service, where Polyakov worked, is also engaged in political persecution, but on the scale of the entrusted region. — Inset K.ru

BFM.ru, 07/14/2023, “Detention of the administrator of the telegram channel “Kremlin laundress”: a standard plot without facts”: If you go back directly to Mikhail Polyakov, in addition to the administration of the “Kremlin laundress” (260 thousand subscribers), the channel “112” attributes to him connections with the channels “Siloviki” (almost 300 thousand subscribers) and Brief (almost half a million people). And the telegram channel Baza also connects Polyakov with the Nezygar telegram channel (331,000 subscribers). As for the content that was distributed in the resources mentioned above, the names “Siloviki” and “Kremlin laundress” speak for themselves. Brief, on the other hand, rather collects everything in a row – for greater clickability.

If we talk about facts that are almost non-existent in this story, it remains only to note that after the news about the detention of Polyakov appeared, posts on the Siloviki, Brief and Nezygar channels continued to appear. Both the Siloviki and Brief wrote on their website that Polyakov had nothing to do with them. “Nezygar” made repost messages from the Karnaukhov channel with a text in defense of Polyakov. But the last post on the channel “Kremlin Laundress” was released on July 13. And it hasn’t been updated since. — Inset K.ru

@nonetutto, 14.07.2023 18:18: The telegram community is very concerned about the detention of former FSB Colonel Polyakov, who worked in the telegram market. […] Yes, this is an investigation within the framework of the work of “military correspondents” with TsIPSO, since the retired colonel was mainly related to “power” channels. And once he helped the Kremlin laundress to deanonymize telegrams. What is deanon telegram? This is an opportunity for Western intelligence agencies to get in touch with leading admins in the Russian segment.

So what is known (from a source close to the investigation) now? Polyakov received a lot of materials from TsIPSO. He kept in Proton (he provided access) files and documents both on the SVO and on various political figures. The data was sent to him from anonymous mailboxes, mainly from Poland and Lithuania. So far, only his ability to administer the Kremlin laundress has been reliably established.

There was close communication with Nezygar, but without the possibility of access to the channel. Polyakov has contacts of Ilias Mercury, Konstantin Rykov, Christina Potupchik, Tatyana Stolar. It is possible that they conducted anonymous correspondence or had one-time contacts, not understanding with whom the communication was going on. The author of the Kremlin washerwoman received four allegations of extortion. Three from merchants from the regions, one from a well-known politician, there are five more applications from merchants from Moscow and St. Petersburg, they are still being verified. — Inset K.ru

@tddd, 16.07.2023 09:34: Polyakov worked with the channels “Kremlin Laundress”, “Siloviki”, “Nezygar” and BRIEF – they are constantly quoted by Kremlin propagandists like Solovyov. There, in agreement with Sergei Kiriyenko, he placed profitable for the Kremlin and the Moscow mayor Sobyanin order. — Inset K.ru

@nonetutto, 16.07.2023 09:08: New manuals from the Kremlin on the “Polyakov case” will get to the admins of his network from Monday morning. Apparatus A. Gromova will bring. Then we will see the strength of all respect and protective stance, which the wards of “Uncle Misha FSB” demonstrated on July 14 (but not 15). Tomorrow we’ll see how these wood lice will spin like a louse on a comb. — Inset K.ru

@nonetutto, 16.07.2023 15:01: Polyakov’s network included at least eight (8) patriotic telegram channels. Possible schemes for working out the agenda of the CIPSO are being checked: stories came from Polish addresses that were voiced in Z-channels, and then the “patriotic network” fought the stories according to the well-known model of mochilov “Ukrainian experts” on state TV: idea-meaning-fake are thrown into public plane, and then unwind in a negative way, turning into an event.

In addition, some LOMs associated with “Uncle Misha FSB” turned to him to hack into mail, de-anonymize intermediaries or competitors, identify their enemies, put negative blocks on their friends and clients. The previously announced list of surnames is tentative.

If there are names and data “beyond” in the list and in the materials, the consequences for customers will be deplorable – regardless of rank and merit. In general, innocent pranks from the world of anonymous telegrams have turned into a kind of safe commerce. But the game of business under the guise of state interests has gone too far. The interests of the state are voiced in the Kremlin, and not where there are a lot of left money. — Inset K.ru

@vchkogpu, 15.07.2023 10:10: As it turned out, the detained administrator of the “Kremlin washerwoman” ex-employee of the FSB of the Russian Federation Mikhail Polyakov himself wrote piles of slander on other people, demanding to send them to prison. So, it was he who asked the Center E of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation to organize an inspection Pavel Vrublevsky on the subject of the fact that he is supposedly the administrator of the Infobomba channel (this was not true). Vrublevsky first “copied” the outdoor scene, and then revealed the initiator of the events.

After that, in one of the channels, which is connected to Vrublevsky, the following humorous description of Mikhail Polyakov came out: “Friends say that he is a very active person in technology, loves various gadgets-toys, and although he does not have the authority to deal specifically with terrorists and extremists as such, but only teachers and, in general, the direction of social culture, he will listen to you with pleasure, you can hand him over a terrorist or extremist, well, or complain about your neighbor and the State Department. By the way, at the time of the events, Polyakov’s major client for working with Telegram was Umar Kremlev. — Inset K.ru

@zhabaigaduka, 14.07.2023 17:45: Ex-Colonel Mikhail Polyakov, who is associated with the “Kremlin laundress” – a significant person for the Russian telegram. Actually, it was with his filing, as our sources say, that the “first telegram war” began. In general, we can state what is already clear: a course has been taken for a complete cleansing of the telegram, so that in the foreseeable future such concepts as “blocks on the negative” will finally become a thing of the past. — Inset K.ru