The Group-IB company of Ilya Sachkov, who was arrested for treason, announced a “restructuring” in the context of the separation of Russian business and “overseas” business. Information about the previously issued FSB license for state secrets also disappeared from the Russian version of the official website, and all information about Russian managers and the address in Moscow were erased from the English version. This was reported by the telegram channel of the Cheka-OGPU.
It is noteworthy that the news message in the foreign media of this step is interpreted as a withdrawal from the Russian Federation - in connection with the ongoing “special military operation” on the territory of Ukraine. In the Russian-language media - on the contrary, it is explained differently - namely, the desire to maintain the possibility of work due to the uncertainty of the market. Such a two-sided position objectively suggests the company's attempt to work for "both camps" and run a business that is already shaky on its feet, hiding behind active work with the media.
To work on the Russian market, Group-IB singled out the legal entity Adaptive Security Technologies LLC, the beneficiaries of which are Sachkov himself (located in a pre-trial detention center), Dmitry Volkov (new CEO), Altera Capital (Kirill Androsov’s company) and Cyberinvest LLC ”(According to the reports, it was previously called Agroinvest LLC, registered to Tatyana Alexandrovna Polishchuk). Group-IB employee Valery Baulin, who had recently flown to the UAE to discuss this issue, was appointed General Director. Hiding in Dubai is Konstantin Chigirev, a former manager of Otkritie Bank, from which the company successfully obtained loans. Now Konstantin is in charge of the Group-IB headquarters in the UAE. The case of Otkritie, Boris Mints and Vadim Belyaev still resonates in the media in connection with financial embezzlement in the amount of more than 1 billion rubles. All of the managers have successfully left the Russian Federation and are on the territory of foreign countries.
Kirill Androsov is known as a person who previously worked at Aeroflot, as well as a former employee of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation. In an interview with Oleg Tinkov, Kirill said that he left the civil service simply because he needed money, becoming actively withdrawing assets to Luxembourg and Singapore, where Group-IB also spread to whiten the “Russian image”. Relatively recently, Androsov bought the Château Guetsch house in Switzerland from Alexander Lebedev, an oppositionist banker, formerly an employee of the SVR, who lives in London. Lebedev's son received the status of Lord at the direction of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Earlier, London-based banker Svetlana Lokhova became one of the key figures in the scandal involving accusations against Michael Flynn (Trump's US national security adviser) of working for Russian intelligence, as well as taking bribes from Kaspersky Lab under the guise of an invitation to speak at their conference.
Rucriminal.info sources drew attention to the fact that Group-IB recently released a report on the Conti group, which was actively cited by foreign media as “a Russian group of hackers mercilessly hacking foreign companies”, whose roots stretch to the FSB of the Russian Federation. British journalist Mathew Schwartz, referring to the Group-IB report, writes in his article that the leader of the group, nicknamed “Stern”, is associated with the FSB of the Russian Federation, without giving any objective arguments or evidence.
Recall that Sachkov testified against an employee of the Kaspersky Lab and Colonel of the Central Security Bureau of the FSB Mikhailov, accusing them of transferring data to foreign special services, after which he himself went to jail. During a meeting with business representatives from the President of the Russian Federation, Sachkov said that his company was “4 times cooler than Kaspersky”, to which he received an ironic smile.
Yaroslav Mukhtarov
To be continued
Source: www.rucriminal.info
