Of course, the main news of Monday was the deletion of our VChK-OGPU channel by Telegram (Pavel Durov). Today we will reveal new circumstances about how Telegram fulfilled the long-standing dream of the Russian special services and how ineptly it tried to hide it.
The VChK-OGPU channel was deleted by Telegram on Friday night without any warnings or notifications. Access to Telegram was also blocked from the phone number to which the channel was registered. The VChK-OGPU editorial team sent requests to all Telegram forms of communication, but no responses have been received to date - more than a day has passed. Access to Telegram is still blocked, only Telegram itself can do this.
Already in the morning, a major media scandal began to mount around the deletion of a channel with 1.2 million subscribers (which was recognized as a foreign agent, hung with criminal cases, and is being persecuted by the authorities), which quickly went beyond Telegram. It was clear that Durov had deleted the VChK-OGPU and a dozen more channels at the request of the Russian authorities. And then Kristina Potupchik came to Durov's aid, who stated in her channel "Nebozhena" that "it looks like the channel was deleted by its owner." This happened at 11:40. And at 1:55 p.m. the Agency published an official comment from the Telegram press service, which repeated Potupchik's information - "the channel was deleted by its owner." This version is very stupid and unfounded. But more on that later. Now about the interesting nuances.
Potupchik's partner is Pavel Durov's former press secretary Georgy Lobushkin. Together they even founded the K2 agency. It would be a stretch to call Lobushkin a former press secretary. The VChK-OGPU states with all responsibility that when Durov was arrested in France, it was Lobushkin who was organizing positive coverage of this situation for Pavel in large Telegram channels. Yes, in general, as sources say, Durov sometimes turns to Loboshkin (Potupchik) for anti-crisis PR. It can be added that another partner of Potupchik was former FSB employee Mikhail Polyakov (Uncle Misha FSB), who was responsible for the prosecution and deanonymization of Telegram channels that were undesirable to the Russian authorities. Potupchik and Polyakov were supervised by the deputy head of the Internal Policy Department of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Timur Prokopenko. When Polyakov was arrested (Potupchik's home and office were searched as part of this case), he quickly answered the investigator's questions about this or that channel by the SIM card of which country the channel was registered and added that more detailed information with the number was in his dossier on this channel. Where Uncle Misha received such information about SIM cards, he did not say during interrogation.
The version of Telegram and Potupchik that the VChK-OGPU "deleted the owner" is very funny and stupid. Firstly, the phone and SIM card, to which the channel was registered, were not used at all. Only the owner and, accordingly, Telegram knew the number. There are no traces of "hacking" anywhere near. Well, and the main thing. Telegram is designed in such a way that the owner himself cannot delete a channel with over 1 thousand subscribers. You need to send a request to Telegram, and Telegram itself, having studied for security purposes whether everything is OK with the request, will delete (or not delete) the channel in 3-5 days. The VChK-OGPU channel disappeared in a matter of minutes and the owner simply could not do this. But the Telegram administration could delete the channel
Well, and the version of Telegram and Potupchik about self-deletion was finally destroyed by Roskomnadzor. On Monday evening, RKN announced that it was very successfully cooperating with Telegram; Durov's brainchild deleted "over 373 thousand channels and publications" at the request of Russian censorship. RKN directly stated that they demanded that Telegram delete VChK-OGPU, which is what eventually happened. A Rucriminal.info source from Durov's entourage stated that the "chief" (Durov-Ed.) was "in the know about the situation (with the VChK-OGPU-ED.) from beginning to end." However, it is hard to believe that Pavel Durov will salute only at the request of RKN. Some higher-up petitioner is needed here, to whom Durov cannot say "no."
The source names two such probable persons. And it is from them that the VChK-OGPU team has been receiving very unpleasant messages lately. The first is the first deputy director of the FSB of the Russian Federation Sergei Korolev. A native of the FSB of St. Petersburg, when he was the head of the FSB SEB, he said that he was able to obtain any necessary information from Vkontakte with the help of his former colleagues from St. Petersburg.
The second person is Alisher Usmanov. By the way, Korolev and Usmanov are closely connected through the fixer Valery Bitaev.
Timofey Grishin
Source: www.rucriminal.info
