Posted on 01/04/2022 9:18:25 AM PST by elpadre
A wealthy Russian businessman indicted in Boston late last year on hacking and insider trading charges could have access to documents and information about the 2016 election hacking in the U.S.
Vladislav Klyushin was extradited to the U.S. from Switzerland late last month and charged with overseeing a multinational scam that pried privileged documents that companies were filing with U.S. regulators before they were public, then trading on the information.
Among his employees, and also named in the indictment, is Ivan Yermakov – who was among a dozen Russian military intelligence officers former special counsel Robert Mueller indicted in 2018 on charges related to 2016 election hacking.
Sources close to the Kremlin and Russia's intelligence sources believe Klyushin has access to documents related to the 2016 hack of the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton allies, Bloomberg News reported According to the report, the documents establish that a team from Russia's GRU military intelligence unit led the hack, providing the first detailed evidence of the alleged hacking effort.
The U.S. is pursuing the case but has not been able to try any of the alleged hackers, who remain outside the U.S. Indictments of people identified as members of the 'Fancy Bear' hacking team charge them with computer hacking, wire fraud, and identity theft.
According to the Bloomberg report, Klyushin was approached by U.S. and British spy agencies in the years before he left Russia by private jet for a ski trip with his family in Switzerland. People characterized the extradition as a 'serious intelligence blow' to the Kremlin.
If he has documents central to the election hack, Klyushin could try to leverage the information about the election hack in exchange for leniency in the financial crimes he is charged with carrying out.
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Defected????
The USSR has been dead for 30 years now.
Folks can travel now out of Russia, whenever they want.
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The return of “Russia, Russia, Russia!”. Instead of a fake dossier we’ll have a fake defector who will vouch for the fake dossier.
and more:
“...The indictment says Klyushin’s company, M-13, worked for the Russian government. The company says it provides media monitoring and cyber-security services. But according to the indictment, it hacked reports destined for the Security and Exchange Commission from such firms as Tesla, Roku, Snap and Steel Dynamics. Also charged in the scheme is Nikolai Rumiantcev.
Klyushin’s insider status is further established by the Russian medal of honor that Putin bestowed on him in June 2020, just 18 months before he left the country. Prosecutors included a photo of the medal in a filing in opposition to Klyushin’s bail request to remain confined in an apartment pending his trial....”
The DNC was not hacked, Seth Rich leaked the info and they killed him for it.
My parents say Trump ‘has it all’ as it was happening, in real time. Why has he not put his proof out there? It would save many booms, krakens and speculation.
“Folks can travel now out of Russia, whenever they want.”
Unlike Australia that routinely denies the vast majority of passport applications and holds their own citizens prisoner.
One thing I noticed in the industrial world, the guy who was responsible for the problems was the guy who seized control of the investigation to find the culprit. Somehow, the guy who caused it was always exonerated. Giving the Biden administration control over the investigation into anything the Democrats did is certain to exonerate them.
Yes it was Seth Rich. At the time it was pointed out that the data transfer was too fast for it to have been a hack.
Defect means that you are switching allegiance. Its not necessarily about getting away from the USSR.
Sounds like why so many in the democratic party are jumping ship so fast dots being connected.
I agree. This is a bullshit article. Seth Rich exposed the DNC and was murdered for it shortly thereafter. Next case.
Vladislav Klyushin has a huge bullseye painted on his back. The Russki’s and the Clinton’s have high powered sniper rifles.
Bkmk
“...The return of “Russia, Russia, Russia!”...”
Focus on Russia instead of the real enemies - China and Biden misdeeds.
There was no hacking of the election by Russia. Never happened.
It took quite awhile to figure out the Democrat Party, in this case, were the hackees, not the hackers.
Must be the same old “Russia, Russia, Russia” crap. In my mind, anything that might have been done to the Dems in 2016 was more than made up for with their own theft of the 2020 election.
Even if someone hacked into a Democrat party computer that does not even remotely = hacking an election.
So it wasn’t a paid political hit job first started by Hillary Clinton, but then taken up by Obama, the FBI and the CIA in a DC rumor-whispering and corrupt spying campaign against Trump and other opponents????
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