The independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, meanwhile, said that a total of six suspects - including Mikhailov, Dokuchayev, and Stoyanov - had been arrested. The newspaper Kommersant reported that Mikhailov was arrested at a meeting of FSB officers and was taken from the meeting after a sack was put on his head. Pavlov confirmed to RFE/RL the arrest of Mikhailov and Dokuchayev, along with Ruslan Stoyanov, a former employee of the Interior Ministry who had worked for Kaspersky Labs, a well-known private cyber-research company, which announced Stoyanov's arrest last month. ![]() ![]() The growing number of arrests, and a steady stream of leaks in Russian media over the past two weeks, have stoked speculation and offered potential glimpses into Russia's formidable security apparatus, and its possible ties to Russia's shadowy underground hacking networks.Īt the time of their arrests in December, Sergei Mikhailov and Dmitry Dokuchayev were officers with the FSB's Center for Information Security, a leading unit within the FSB involved in cyberactivities. ![]() Pavlov's remarks were the first independent confirmation of the arrests, which occurred in December. He said that there are more than three suspects in the case, but he refused to identify his client or say whether his client was an employee of the FSB. Ivan Pavlov, who is representing a fourth suspect in the case, confirmed the charges and the identities of the three men in a phone interview with RFE/RL on February 1. А Russian lawyer has confirmed the arrests of two Federal Security Service (FSB) officers and a manager at a Russian cybersecurity company on treason charges, and that they are suspected of passing classified information to U.S.
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