Interfax: The defendants of the CIB FSB case talked with foreigners allegedly for their recruitment

Former employees of the FSB Information Security Center, arrested in the "Spy" case, explained their contacts with foreigners recruiting activities. This was reported by Interfax with reference to an unnamed source, "familiar with the situation."

The interlocutor of the agency also stated that the defendants in the case "were under unspoken supervision for several years."

He also confirmed the information previously published by the New Gazeta that the fourth person involved in the case is a certain Georgy Fomchenkov .

Meanwhile, Reuters, citing a source associated with the investigation, reports that Fomchenkov is a former FSB officer.

According to one of the acquaintances of this defendant, transferred by the "new newspaper", "Gosha was engaged in everything that brought money." It is known that in 1999 he ran for the State Duma on the list of "the Stalin Bloc - for the USSR." In 2011, the Moscow Arbitration Court recovered 345.3 million rubles from the external managers of Sudbusinessbank, which was bankrupt in 2007.

In addition to Fomchenkov in the case of three more accused. This is the head of the FSB CSB Sergey Mikhailov, the senior operative of the 2nd department of the operational department of the Center Dmitry Dokuchaev (formerly Hacker Forb) and the head of the Kaspersky laboratory department for the investigation of Cybercriminals Ruslan Stoyanov. All four defendants were detained on December 4, 2016 and arrested the next day; This month, their detention in the pre -trial detention center extended. Article 275 of the Criminal Code (state treason), which provides for 12 to 20 years of the colony, was imputed arrested.

On February 5, it became known that the arrested Mikhailov abandoned the originally these confession . It was also argued that the FSB, the leading investigation in the case, still did not find out what kind of information the defendants transferred abroad and to whom they transferred it. In addition, it was reported that contacts with the CIA are not charged with the defendants. Earlier, lawyer Ivan Pavlov, who protects one of the arrested (who exactly, he refuses to clarify, explaining only that this is not Mikhailov), already noted that"it was about America, but not about the CIA."

On February 10, information appeared in the media that some of the defendants in the case completely or partially pleaded guilty, but no one went on a deal with the investigation . It is known that Pavlov’s client completely denies guilt.

On February 1, the press secretary of Vladimir Putin DmitryPeskov rejected the assumption that the CIB FSB case was instituted in connection with the transfer of information about Russian hacker attacks to the electoral system of this country in the United States. “In any case, no matters of this kind can have relations with such ridiculous insinuations, because, as we have already said, we categorically deny any statements about the possible involvement of the Russian side in any hacker attacks,” the official said.