In Moscow, the administrator of the telegram bot "Eye of God" came with a search. This is reported by the human rights project "Network Freedoms" with reference to the lawyer Fyodor Sirosh.
Human rights activists do not disclose the name of the administrator.
As Network Freedoms explains, God's Eye is a bot for looking up a person's contacts in public databases. In March, Roskomnadzor demanded that Telegram remove the bot due to “violation of personal data legislation.” God's Eye has been blocked. With the help of Network Freedoms, the administrator asked Roskomnadzor to explain the grounds for blocking. “The service only provided a convenient opportunity to automate the receipt of this information and consolidate information from various sources into one structured report,” human rights activists write.
22:50 Lawyer Fyodor Sirosh was not allowed to see the administrator of the Eye of God. The search ended, the administrator was taken away in an unknown direction. Sirosh was not presented with a search warrant. Who conducted the search is unknown. The security forces were in civilian clothes. about it Write "Network Freedom".
April 8 14:24 Last night, the girl of the administrator of the "Eye of God" was also searched. At the moment, she does not get in touch, according to Network Freedoms.
The Telegram channel draws attention to the fact that lawyer Fyodor Sirosh still cannot find his client. He continues to search. It is not known what the past searches are connected with.
17:11 According to Sergey Kalenik, spokesman for the Eye of God project, the searches at the employee's house are not related to the work of the project. It is reported by MBH Media.
“From the fragmentary information left by his relatives, we made a preliminary conclusion that the claims against this person in the legal field are connected with the investigation of a crime not related to the Eye of God, namely, the investigation of some illegal community, to which somehow this gentleman could be involved. Again, according to relatives, the employees (whatever they were employees) did not have any materials regarding the Eye of God project itself, ”said Kalenik.
21:00 Network Freedom lawyer Fyodor Sirosh managed to talk with the investigator of the first department for the investigation of particularly important cases of the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in Moscow. This is reported by "Network Freedom".
According to the investigator, the administrator of the telegram bot was released after the search, which took place on April 7. Under what article the case was initiated and what his principal is accused of, the lawyer was not informed. The administrator is not contacted.
The case is being investigated by the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation and the FSB; in the near future, investigative actions will be carried out against the administrator.