Ruslan Stoyanov-head of Kaspersky Lab’s computer incidents investigation team and two Federal Service (FSB) officers Sergei Mikhailove and Dmitry Dokuchayev were arrested two months ago. The treason case had brought in December is the result of allegations made by an online payments firm seven years ago, it has emerged.
It was initially though that they may have been arrested in connection with an incendiary dossier compiled by a former MI6 man about US President Donald Trump, alleging the Kremlin has compromising material on him.
However, Pavel Vrublevsky, founder of online payments firm ChronoPay, told Reuters that the arrests were made in connection with allegations he made in 2010 that Stoyanov and Mikhailov had passed secrets to US firms which then made their way into the hands of intelligence officials.
Link: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/russian-cyber-treason-case-takes/
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