What is happening around the Telegram channel "Case from the cello", which published "compromising" for officials

Confrontation with the FSB, "black PR" and rumors about the sale for a record amount.

The fact that the authors of one of the most popular in Russia Telegram channels “The Cell from the Cello” were detained on January 27, Baza was the first to say . The channel has not been updated for a week.

“Case” regularly published compromising posts about Russian officials and businessmen. Several sources confirm the media that the FSB put pressure on its administrators and seized the SIM card of the owner of the channel to suspend publications.

Alexander Gusov, who is called the owner and administrator of the channel, claims that he was a client of the “case”, and he had no searches. He is going to sue Baza.

The Cello Casket is one of the most popular Russian channels. He published "compromising" to Russian officials

The “Case from the cello” has more than 400 thousand signatures, and this is one of the largest Telegram channels in Russia. Anonymous authors daily published several messages with compromising to officials and businessmen. Sometimes these were links to media investigations, sometimes their own insidies.

The “case”, among other things, wrote about the former Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev , and the present-Mikhail Mishustin . About Evgenia Prigozhin , Oleg Deripaska and relatives of Vladimir Putin. There were posts about the president himself.

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"Medusa" notes that most links from the channel led to the Rospres.com website since 2008. And on the main page of the site was a link to the “case”, whose user is @rospres. The Rupres news agency, which published the site, had a license from Roskomnadzor, but it stopped acting by decision of the founders. It was not possible to contact them.

The Rospres.com website and its mirrors, which were on the domains of .org, .net and .info, do not work since February 4.

On January 27, the channel stopped updated. At first, information about its sale appeared, then that the special services received access to it

The last post in the channel was published on January 27. He is dedicated to the Governor of Chuvashia, who, handing the Emergencies Ministry to the fireman, forced him to jump after them. On January 29, Varlamov.ru said that the “case” was sold for two million dollars. The source of the publication suggested that the new owner plans to close the channel.

A source of Medusa, familiar with one of the potential buyers, confirmed that before the New Year, the administrators of the Case from the cello were actively looking for the buyer. According to him, “the Kremlin did not agree to their proposal, and they went to look further,” but soon they began to have problems. “A group of authors crossed the road to a lot. Before the publication, “Case” extorted money, and in case of refusal, published information, ” said the interlocutor of the publication close to the FSB.

On February 3, one of the technical administrators of the channel said that the people who controlled the “case” do not get in touch for a week, and “a day from January 26 to 27”, some emergency occurred with them. He stated the lack of reason to believe in the “voluntary sale”, because the old owners disappeared suddenly. “If the channel has already changed the owner, then the texts will begin to disappear from the archive, or new owners will resume the release. Otherwise, the acquisition is devoid of meaning, ”said Texadmin.

On February 4, Baza published its version of events. Sources of the publication claim that on January 27, the FSB officers detained the authors of Case in Moscow - Alexander Gusov and another man. “First of all, the FSB officers were interested in the SIM card, on which the channel“ Case from the cello ”was registered. During the searches, they found it and seized it from Gusov or from his colleague, ”writes Baza, noting that the creators of the channel lost access to him.

The Bell calls Gusov the famous "in the Black PR market." He and his partner have several licenses for the media

The second person, “aware of the activity of the“ case ”, Baza calls Alexander Krestnikov, a partner of Gusov for several media projects. “Huses and godsoners are people known in the Russian Black PR market,” writes The Bell. They are among the largest intermediaries in this market and themselves own resources where articles are located. “Their reputation, of course, is peculiar,” the interlocutor of the publication notes.

According to the SPARK-Interfax database, Gusov has a license for the Internet publication. And Krestnikov’s - “Parliamentary Izvestia”, “Scandals.ru”, “General Newspaper” and other media. Its Fourth Power LLC recorded 277 Internet domains. Husov and godsoners were also co-owners of the United Environmental Education LLC.

The Bell draws attention to the fact that the audience of these media is small, but the license allows them to get into the Yandex.NOVES, become a formally legitimate source for quoting and fall into monitoring.

Gusov denies everything and is going to sue BAZA in court

“I was not detained, they did not conduct any conversations with me, and I learned about this situation from the BAZA correspondent,” Alexander Gusov said “open media”. In an interview with Medusa, he said that he was a client of the Case, but never administered him.

The professional need to communicate with the channel was in the field of placement, including those refuting the previously released materials, and intelligence on the emergence of certain publications.

The people who saw Gusov on January 27 - his English teacher, colleague and friend - confirm that they talked with him and that day he could not have been a search. According to Gusov, in the evening he was in a restaurant, noted the birth of a friend's daughter. According to RAPSI, Carlo Machavariani also came to his friend, FSB officers also came. Telegram channel writes that it was from him that the SIM card was seized. Machavariani denies this and as evidence gives a check from the restaurant in which the celebration took place.

Gusov called the publication of Baza a “stuffing” and stated that he would sue: “I will sue BAZA on the fact of slander and to protect honor and dignity - there will be either two different claims, or simply“ slander ”. I'm going to write a statement today. " BAZA editor -in -chief Nikita Mogutin, despite Gusov’s statements, is sure that his information about his searches is reliable.

There is no official information about searches. According to BAZA, this is due to the fact that the detention was not executed and was called "preventive measures." “Case” is still not updated, but there is no report about its closure in the channel.

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