Flint’s group was supervised by FSB DVKR officer Igor Voroshilov, who was arrested at the beginning of the investigation. Despite this, the case was not conducted by military investigators, but by the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. How so? And the investigation simply stated that Voroshilov was not an FSB employee, so there was no reason to transfer the case to the Main Inspectorate of the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. However, in the final version of the accusation, the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation indicated Igor Voroshilov… as an employee of the FSB of the Russian Federation. But with a lot of reservations. They say that Voroshilov committed a crime not at his place of duty and not while performing his duties, so the SD could conduct an investigation.
More fun. To make the charges more serious for all defendants, Article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of a criminal community) was added. It is necessary to somehow explain that 16 people have been kept in pre-trial detention for over 36 months during the preliminary investigation. But the legal madness didn’t end there.
The question arose why the case was sent to the 235th garrison military court. The logic turned out to be ironclad. It is the 235th garrison military court that covers the Tverskoy district of Moscow, in which the building of the Investigation Department is located. According to the SD, a more serious crime, namely the organization of a criminal community, was suppressed on the territory of the Tverskoy district in the investigator’s office. Therefore, the case must be sent to this court.
Why is all this madness happening? It’s simple. During Putin’s meeting with Trump, and then with Biden, the latter raised the issue of Russian hackers and materials were transferred to the US FBI. Putin personally ordered the investigation. And all the hacker groups that made up the cyber forces, including Flint’s group, were sent to jail.
Friendship with the United States ended a long time ago, but there is no return signal from Putin and investigators are engaged in “legal sex” with this case. Suffice it to say that there are no victims or statements from them in the case at all. The indictment identifies the “cyber troops” as a group that controlled most of the shadow market for payment instruments. Despite such a loud phrase, the indictment refers to the established turnover of bank cards of only… 700 US dollars. This is how much bank card data was purchased during an operational event.
Flint’s group at one time served as the cyber forces of the Russian Federation. The leader of the group, Stroganov (Flint), during his activities was awarded a certificate from the director of the FSB of the Russian Federation for ensuring cybersecurity of the Russian Federation and gratitude from Vladimir Putin for ensuring cybersecurity during the FIFA World Cup in the Russian Federation in 2018.
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