On the days before Christmas, officials u.s. In Boston launched allegations of trafficking in the inner trafficking of the Russian technology that they had chased for months. They accused Vladislav Klyushin, which had been extradited from Switzerland on December 18, illegally produced tens of millions of dollars in trading in the company’s income information hacked.
But when the authorities put the case of their securities fraud, a striking portrait of the detention appears: Klyushin is not only an inner trader accused, but people in the Kremlin. He runs an information technology company working with the Russian government’s top echelon. Only 18 months before, Klyushin received an honor medal from Russian President Vladimir Putin. The A.S. Having, in prisoners, people in the highest level kremlin handed over US law enforcement in recent memories.
Cybersecurity Klyushin’s work and the Kremlin bond can make it a useful source of information for officials A.S., according to some people who are familiar with the problem of Russian intelligence. Most critically, said these people, if he chose to work together, he could give Americans with the nearest view of the 2016 election manipulation.
According to people in Moscow close to the Kremlin and Security services, Russian intelligence has concluded that Klyushin, 41, has access to documents relating to Russian campaigns to hack the Democratic Party server during US 2016 elections. These documents, they said, Building hackers was led by the team in the Russian Gru Military Intelligence that the Cybersecurdy company had been nicknamed “Fancy Bear” or APT28. Such cache will give the US for the first time with detailed documentary evidence of alleged Russian efforts to influence the election, according to these people.
Klyushin Line to the US – His flight from Moscow through a private jet, his arrest in Switzerland, and waited in prison when Russia and the US competed to win his extradition – explained in the submission of European and Swiss law, as well as in Indonesia, and on accounts more than half a dozen People with knowledge of problems asking for anonymity to talk about Moscow’s efforts and the cause of attention.
According to these accounts, Klyushin was approached by a spy agent A.S. and u.K. In two years before the release from Russia and received increased security levels in Switzerland. He also missed his last chance to appeal him, negligence that confused many observers in Moscow. His trip to A.S. It was a serious intelligence punch for the Kremlin, some people said, who would deepen if Klyushin decided to seek reduction of penalties from prosecutors A. by providing information about Moscow’s inner work.
Three of the people added that they believed that Klyushin had access to the secret record for other high gru operations abroad. The Russian military intelligence agent in the past few years has been linked to a series of hacking attacks and experiments the killing of chemical poisoning from the dissident of Ex-Gru Colonel Sergei scripal and his daughter at U.K. In 2018 it has denied involvement.
Indications of Point Vantage Klyushin Throughout the Submission of A.S. The IT company, M-13, works for the Russian presidency, the government and ministries, according to the indigenous trade charges. Among his subordinates was a former military intelligence official named Ivan Yermakov, who was charged with Klyushin in the indictment. Yermakov was also the defendant in the 2018 charges of the Special Advisory Team Robert Mueller who accused him and 11 Russia hacked the Democratic computer system. The case has not been resolved because the tests remain outside A.S., but the prosecutor can pursue and expand the case if new information presents himself.