A source of the Cheka-OGPU said that the director of the FSB of the Russian Federation may be replaced in the near future. According to the interlocutor, now the first deputy director of the FSB of the Russian Federation, Sergei Korolev, is in quarantine for a subsequent meeting with Vladimir Putin. It is assumed that at this meeting, Korolev may be asked to take the place of the director of the FSB of the Russian Federation. Moreover, the current director Alexander Bortnikov (he turned 71 in November) himself lobbies for Korolev in his place, in order to avoid appointing a person less close to Bortnikov to the post.
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A source of the Cheka-OGPU spoke about the detention of the platoon commander of military unit 08818 (formerly commanded by Alexander Khodakovsky) on suspicion of robbery. In March 2021, during a meeting, under the pretext of selling a car, 6 unknown persons (one introduced himself as a policeman and showed his ID) stole a bag containing 7 million 200 thousand rubles from the director of the First National Group LLC during a meeting. The gangsters fled in a BMW X6. According to the interlocutor, on January 30, 2023, the commander of a platoon of military unit 08818, Pavel Fedorov, was detained in Moscow on suspicion of robbery. The military pleaded guilty and gave detailed testimony.
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According to our information, the Moscow Prosecutor’s Office intends to urgently transfer to court the criminal case against Agrosoyuz and Inkaro banks, initiated under Article 210 (organization of a criminal community). The haste is more than strange, if not suspicious. Especially if we take into account the fact that right now the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, accompanied by the FSB CSS, is conducting investigative actions, within the framework of which irrefutable evidence was obtained confirming the falsification of cases against these banks. The main suspects, former FSB officers Sergei Bespalov and Yevgeny Sviridov, have already been sent to jail and are actively testifying. According to the disclosed data, together with Bespalov and Sviridov, Alexander Ivanov, the acting head of the Directorate “F” of the GUEBiPK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, was also part of the OPS. The latter represented the operational-power block in it. In addition, in the context of the mentioned case, additional facts were provided to the IC for verification, under the articles of corruption and high treason by the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and the DIA. Of course, the employees of the Moscow Prosecutor’s Office cannot but know about this. Surely, verification and subsequent confirmation of these facts by investigators of the Investigative Committee and operatives of the FSB CSS will help make the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor’s Office stop ignoring reality. And in the case of personal intervention Bastrykina A.I. it is unlikely that these facts will be hushed up, and in addition to the existing corruption channels, there will also be channels for the leakage of secret information, as well as ways of “interaction” of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with European “colleagues”.
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The Cheka-OGPU became aware of a fire in the GRU Special Forces Training Center. On January 31, 2023, the duty officer at military unit 43292 called the emergency services in the evening and reported a fire at the training ground. Firefighters who arrived in the village of Senezh encountered a fire with an area of about 100 square meters – a warehouse was on fire. The cause of the fire is under investigation and arson is not ruled out.
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VChK-OGPU became aware of a large corruption scandal in the Federal Penitentiary Service. Non-working radio “jammers” were bought. Between FKU “GCITOiS” of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia and LLC “Alfa-Technoservice” millions of contracts were concluded for the provision of services for blocking data transmission systems via radio communications. We are talking about the supply of equipment to FKU SIZO-5 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in Moscow, FKU IK-3 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Ryazan Region, FKU IK-4 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Tver Region. As a result of the audit conducted on the facts of spending budgetary funds under state contracts, the fact of payment for these services was established, but at the same time, the communication blocking systems showed inefficient operation. The materials were transferred to the TFR.
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The VChK-OGPU became aware of the name of a possible intermediary between the 29th department of the CSS of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and the head of the OMVD for the Arbat district, Alexander Koshelev, who fell into disgrace after helping his friend, lawyer Gennady Udunyan. As already reported by the Cheka-OGPU, it was thanks to a high-ranking policeman that the scandalous lawyer was able to get into the Lotte Plaza Hotel, where he attacked Daria Glushakova. According to the source, Koshelev’s “representative” in “solving the issue” with the CSS is another lawyer, Arslan Akavov. The defender is a close friend of all three parties (the head of the 29th department, Koshelev and Udunyan) and hopes that he will be able to “bargain” so that the head of the police department remains in his place. Previously, Akavov became the hero of the publications of the Cheka-OGPU, as a partner of the infamous lawyer Pashayev. He was convicted by the verdict of the Presnensky District Court of Moscow dated July 17, 2018 under part 3 of article 30, part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation to a total of 2 years in prison with a sentence to be served in a penal colony, a sentence on appeal was not considered. According to our information, after his release, Akavov took part in several high-profile cases (for example, he represented the relatives of the “Veshkin shooter” Bardanov), and for the last 9 months he has been basking on the shores of Turkey and “working” remotely.
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Spy scandal in the BND. Russian German became the new defendant in the transfer of secret data about the war in Ukraine to the Kremlin Remember, in late December, we talked about a German intelligence colonel who was arrested for selling German secrets to Russian special services? Recently, German investigators found his alleged accomplice. It turned out to be a native of Russia Arthur Eller. He was born in 1991 in the Volgograd region and soon moved with his family to Germany, where he received citizenship in 1999. In 2009-2021, Eller served in the German army, then suddenly switched to trading in precious stones and oil – his companies worked mainly in Africa. There is little public information about him, but on the other hand, air travel databases show that Eller flew all over the world and often visited Russia – not only in Moscow and St. Petersburg, but also in Sochi, Kirov and even Nizhnekamsk. According to investigators, in 2021 at a football festival in Bavaria, Eller met the same Colonel Karsten Linke. Linke hinted that he worked for the BND, and Eller hinted that he had an acquaintance in the Russian special service. How long they cooperated is not yet known. Investigators believe that Eller brought German secrets to Russia at least twice, in October and November 2022. There he handed over to the FSB documents about Russia and the course of the war in Ukraine. At first, the security forces were very interested in what they received, but after the second delivery, their enthusiasm subsided for some unknown reason. In total, since the beginning of the war, Eller has visited Russia at least six times. According to Spiegel, the German is actively cooperating with the investigation and has already pointed to another intelligence officer involved in the scandal. True, according to Eller, he believed that he was participating in a secret mission of the German intelligence services. Colonel Linke himself is still silent. He faces a life sentence for espionage. Read more: (with VPN) (without VPN)
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In the southern regions there is a provocateur Yevgeny Mikhailov from Taganrog. The character likes to present himself as a journalist and an expert on interethnic relations, but in reality he incites interethnic hatred. Mikhailov actively appears in the media with a patriotic agenda – he gets used to the role, pushing aside criminal side jobs. It was precisely the buildup of interethnic conflicts, social discontent, trolling and undermining trust in state institutions that were his main task for a long time. The biography is amusing, examples of extremist plots too – they pull on several articles of the Criminal Code at once. The degree of anti-Armenian hatred is going through the roof – the Internet cannot cope. Based on the meeting of the public board on complaints about the press and publications with his participation: – Evgeny Mikhailov explained that he has been engaged in journalism in the South of Russia as a specialist in ethnic conflicts for the past few years, and before that he “trained bodyguards”. – Has a permanent registration in the Chechen Republic “for security reasons”. – Evgeny Mikhailov confirms the accusations and hatred on a national basis against the Armenian people in his stories with an “indisputable” texture – for example, the image of a man in an expensive suit with a huge knife behind his back and disturbing music or a photograph of Hitler walking along the platform in full dress uniform with a Nazi order – a swastika on the chest. – If an Armenian surname appears in the plot, then this is clearly the “Torture Echo of Karabakh” and nothing less. If the genocide and murder of Armenians, then “mythical”. – Male Armenian names and surnames, the abuser Eugene loves to distort and rhyme with obscene vocabulary. The special pleasure of the troll agent is obscene headlines and associative ranks between Armenians and LGBT. – Almost an ideological actor: “nobody financed the work on the (approx. anti-Armenian) film, the customer paid me only gasoline and the road.” – Relies only on serious sources: “friends told me, the records were not preserved.” – Modest. Evaluates his work as “I’m just learning.” “Armenians’ accusations that I bought myself with money are false and unfounded. I have my own position.” – “Russia is controlled by the criminal Armenian lobby.” – “Armenia and Armenians have always traditionally used terrorist acts to achieve their dirty goals”, “Armenians do not deserve to have their own state.” Meanwhile, there are several million Armenians in Russia. Ordinary citizens, scientists, ministers and the prime minister have Armenian roots. Of course, the sabotage of Yevgeny Mikhailov must be severely suppressed. Based only on the facts and publications of Yevgeny Mikhailov, as well as building logical chains, we can confidently state that there is a crime under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “actions aimed at inciting hatred or enmity, as well as at humiliating the dignity of a person or a group of persons on the grounds of sex, race, nationality, language, origin, attitude to religion, as well as belonging to any social group, committed publicly …”. The Investigative Committee of Russia and its head Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin, in our opinion, must necessarily respond to the extremist statements of Yevgeny Mikhailov.
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As it became known to the Cheka-OGPU, Oleg Seliverov, whom the Baza telegram channel called the “owner” of the Nexta Live telegram channel, filed a police report against the journalists of the publication. He asks to initiate a case for defamation. We have the text of his statement. “I am asking about the publication of the baza publication from the telegram channel of the same name, where it is indicated that I, “Oleg S.”, according to them, am the alleged owner of the Nexta telegram channel. The article states that the investigators allegedly became interested in this telegram channel in connection with some publications dating back to mid-March last year. Before the article was published in Telegram, employees of this publication called me and my parents in order to find out what relation I have to the nexta telegram channel. I would like to clearly state that I, Seliverov Oleg Olegovich, am in no way associated with this telegram channel and am ready to provide all the necessary material evidence for the investigative process (if any), namely: a SIM card, Telegram messenger data. Also willing to accept a check of the contents of the hard drive of my desktop computer and my father’s computer. Among other things, on January 27, 2023, at about 5:30 pm, a tall brunette man came to us, introducing himself as a Baza journalist, with a request to interview the alleged editor of the Nexta telegram channel, that is, me, Oleg Olegovich Seliverov. Personally, I did not participate in the conversation (due to fears for my own safety), but with the so-called. my father spoke to the Baza journalist (opened the door) Seliverov Oleg Alexandrovich. According to my mother, Seliverova Vera Petrovna (standing nearby), the so-called. the journalist (before the door was opened for him) mentioned a certain Ruslan, saying that he came from him. Later, in order to find out about me, the so-called. an employee of the Baza edition from numbers: …… on the phone ….. I gave a short interview (attached). On January 28, 2023 at 4:44 pm, a publication was published on the Baza telegram channel (screenshots are attached). I, Seliverov Oleg Olegovich, a citizen of the Russian Federation, ask you to look into this issue and bring the Baza publication to the necessary extent of liability for libel under the relevant legislation with its subsequent removal.
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As it became known to the Cheka-OGPU, the AlterOffice software solution from the infamous Nizhny Novgorod company Almi Partner sensationally won the tender for the supply of an office suite for PJSC Transneft in the amount of more than 576 million rubles. It is interesting that this is not their first victory in tenders of departments and companies with state participation. How does this supposedly Russian development captivate near-state structures? The fact that AlterOffice is based on the free open-source LibreOffice package has been discussed by IT market experts for a long time, emphasizing that it is strange to call a plagiarized Western product import substitution. Earlier, the AlterOffice package was excluded from the register by employees of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications due to suspicions of the sale of the open-source LibreOffice package under the AlterOffice brand, however, by a court decision, it was returned to the register. For some reason, this glaring fact does not bother the officials. VChK-OGPU sources noticed that just a few days before the end of the last competition, in which several developers took part, adjustments were made to the terms of reference in favor of allowing the participation of the AlterOffice solution, which did not fit a number of technical requirements. In particular, the analysis of the company’s financial performance indicates the absence of serious investments in software development, the average medium-term number of Almi Partner employees is 31 people. At the same time, the salaries of “programmers” there do not exceed 22 thousand rubles (this is almost the minimum wage in the region) with a market fork of 200-400 thousand rubles! And in the narrow software development community, no one even knows the team behind AlterOffice. IT market experts notice that it is unrealistic to make a competitive Enterprise development in 3 years with such low-powered resources, it takes 100 programmers and 5 years of intensive work. But here, too, the organizers of the competition played along with the right company: the Enterprise version, which appeared in the TOR, was replaced with a desktop solution, to which AlterOffice belongs. in connection with the SVO and initiate an investigation into the presence of their modules in Russian software. This will put companies using the LibreOffice source code in an extremely difficult position. Who in our country is interested in imaginary import substitution in the field of software? The editors will follow the development of the situation.
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The source reports that Oleg Mitvol is really in a serious condition: after 20 days of fever, he practically stopped talking and moving. The leadership of the Krasnoyarsk pre-trial detention center did not take active steps, and did not provide access to high-quality medicines. This attitude may be related to the actions of lawyers and Mitvol himself in terms of challenging the measure of restraint chosen for him in the form of detention. Shortly before his arrest, the ex-prefect of the SAO of Moscow underwent kidney surgery, had a hard time with a coronavirus infection, and his lungs did not fully recover. Recall that JSC Krasnoyarsk Trust of Engineering and Construction Surveys, owned by Mitvol, is suspected of failing to fulfill its obligations under the tender for the design of the metro and embezzling 900 million rubles. However, immediately after Mitvol landed, the Mosproekt-3 bureau, very close to Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin, announced the start of work on the turnkey construction of the Krasnoyarsk subway, bypassing the lengthy procedure of engineering geodetic surveys. The fact may indicate that in their activities the capital contractor uses the documentation of KrasnoyarskTISIZ. During the work, Mosproekt-3 will earn 8 billion rubles, of which it has already received 2.9 billion. At the same time, no one has ordered new surveys so far. It turns out that the metro began to be built according to the documents that Mitvol allegedly falsified. And while the main suspect is kept behind bars for eight months, the rest of the defendants in the case are at large, having given a written undertaking not to leave. Moreover, one of them, Yuri Lapshin, despite turning himself in in November 2022, is still the chairman of the government of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the first deputy governor of Alexander Uss.
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VChK-OGPU became aware of the state of emergency in the part of the missile defense near Moscow. On January 27, 2023, the deputy head of the unit of military unit 51086 (anti-missile complex near Podolsk) applied to the police with a statement and said that in the period from 01:00 to 03:30 on January 27, 2023, on the M2 Crimea highway, an unknown person entered unattended amplification point (NUP) and secretly stole 92 units of equipment, and also rendered unusable a telecommunications facility operating in the interests of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
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In the previous article, we started talking about Sergei Mikhailov. The ex-colonel was convicted of spying for the United States and sentenced to 22 years in prison. He, heading the operational management department of the FSB Information Security Center, passed data on Russian hackers and IT companies to the US authorities. “Thanks” to his activities, American intelligence agencies managed to arrest and detain a number of high-class IT specialists. Let’s talk about them in more detail. In the fall of 2010, 37 hackers were arrested in the United States for stealing $3 million from American banks. It was from this moment that the States raised the “Russian question” – the danger of hackers of Russian origin. In the summer of 2012, 25-year-old Dmitry Zubakha was detained in Cyprus – he was accused of organizing DDoS attacks. In October 2016, on a tip from the American authorities, another Russian was seized – Yevgeny Nikulin. And last year – the owner of the company “M13” Vladislav Klyushin. One of the key figures in the case against Mikhailov was Pavel Vrublevsky, who founded ChronoPay. He was accused of a DDoS attack on a competitor, the Assist payment system. Vrublevsky has repeatedly stated about pressure from Mikhailov and the transfer of data to Western intelligence services. Valuable information about Colonel Mikhailov was owned by the Yekaterinburg programmer Konstantin Kozlovsky. He stated that all his activities were connected with the FSB. Kozlovsky and his hacker group Lurk were detained in 2016. The case was handled by the CIB of the FSB, headed by Mikhailov. Kozlovsky is sure that the “card” of the Lurk group was played by the CIB employees in the interests of foreign intelligence services. In the fall of 2016, Kozlovsky said that, under the direction of the FSB, he participated in hacking the US DNC and “very serious military enterprises”, as well as gaining access to Hillary Clinton’s correspondence. He allegedly received tasks from the curator Dokuchaev. In January 2017, Dokuchaev, his boss Mikhailov, and Kaspersky Lab specialist Ruslan Stoyanov were arrested. Today Kozlovsky is serving his sentence in a strict regime colony. In February 2022, the court sentenced him to 14 years in prison. The programmer is convinced that the materials against him were falsified. The founder of Lurk supported his theory with an example, recalling the criminal case against Ilya Sachkov, whose statements became one of the reasons for the detention of the colonel and his accomplices.
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Colleagues report on a new court hearing in criminal cases related to the activities of the former chief financier of the administration of the Vyborgsky district of the Leningrad region, Alexander Boluchevsky. The ex-official, who has already received a sentence of 8 years in a strict regime, is a defendant in three more criminal cases on facts of particularly large-scale fraud (159.4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Everything is great in this regional story – there is both a crime comedy and a gangster drama. Let’s start with the fact that according to the first sentence under the articles for giving a bribe, forgery and, again, major fraud, the amount of 700 million rubles passes! If in Moscow you won’t surprise anyone with such a size, then for the Vyborgsky district of the Leningrad region, even the regional center, which in some places looks like after the bombing, the money is colossal. Further more – 700 million is just what the investigators were able to easily prove. According to the VChK-OGPU, FSB operatives seriously discussed the amount of embezzlement twice as large, and it cannot be ruled out that these figures will be announced in the Vyborg City Court as part of the consideration of three new criminal cases. A comic moment – it turned out that about half of the stolen 700 million Boluchevsky gave to a certain friend Marina Menshchikova, who promised to put the financier in the chair of the Deputy Minister of the Russian Federation for this money. Now the talented lady is on the international wanted list for a particularly large fraud. Let’s get serious. A month after Boluchevsky’s arrest, Gennady Orlov, head of the administration of the Vyborgsky district of the Leningrad Region, was detained and arrested. And this is not just a manager – this is a protege of the once omnipotent in the good half of the Leningrad region (and once in the government of the region) the owner of the Vyborgsky, Alexander Petrov. He was killed by a couple of sniper shots about a year before the arrests of officials, and this resonant contract killing was not only not disclosed – everyone seemed to have forgotten about him. Here they are, the everyday life of a quiet province.
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The jury found the ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Furgal guilty of organizing the attempted murder of businessman Smolsky. The VChK-OGPU got a record of preparation for answers on a polygraph by expert Nikitin (IC RF) Mistryukov, Furgal’s former business partner, on the basis of whose testimony Furgal was charged with this crime.
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The jury also found Furgal guilty of organizing the murder of businessman Yevgeny Zori and of organizing the murder of his former business partner Oleg Bulatov.
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In Simferopol, the traffic police chased the military, during the arrest the soldier broke the finger of the policeman. According to sources, today at 3 am the traffic police tried to stop the Honda Accord on Kirov Street in Simferopol, but the driver did not stop. The traffic cops gave chase, the driver abandoned the car and tried to run away. It turned out that the man who was running away was a 20-year-old private in military unit 6922. During the arrest, he broke the finger of a police lieutenant. The reasons for this behavior of the soldier are being clarified, an audit is being carried out.