Following the Money, Part II
Summary: Russian State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev sent an open letter to the Interior Ministry in March calling for a criminal inquiry into Pavel Vrublevsky, founder of payment processor ChronoPay, over alleged spam, online pharmacy and scareware operations. Deputy minister A.V. Anichin replied that the 2007 case against Vrublevsky had been wrongly closed, that the closure decree was canceled, and that a task force including FSB Information Security Center specialists would resume the investigation.
Why it matters: Ponomarev's letter notes Vrublevsky sits on the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communication's anti-spam working group, and that the 2007 case was dropped when its chief investigator quit and reportedly went to work for Vrublevsky - a conflict of interest at the center of the complaint.
Read the original at Krebs on Security ↗
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