Суд в Москве приговорил американца Евгения (Джина) Спектора к 15 годам колонии за шпионаж. Бывший председатель совета директоров группы «Медполимерпром» будет отбывать наказание в колонии строгого режима. Также Джин Спектор обязан выплатить штраф в 14 млн руб.
Наказание было вынесено по совокупности с предыдущим приговором, по которому он осужден за посредничество при даче взятки Анастасии Алексеевой, экс-помощнице бывшего вице-премьера Аркадия Дворковича.
Суд в Москве приговорил американца Евгения (Джина) Спектора к 15 годам колонии за шпионаж. Бывший председатель совета директоров группы «Медполимерпром» будет отбывать наказание в колонии строгого режима. Также Джин Спектор обязан выплатить штраф в 14 млн руб.
Наказание было вынесено по совокупности с предыдущим приговором, по которому он осужден за посредничество при даче взятки Анастасии Алексеевой, экс-помощнице бывшего вице-премьера Аркадия Дворковича.
At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. You may recall that, back when Facebook started changing WhatsApp’s terms of service, a number of news outlets reported on, and even recommended, switching to Telegram. Pavel Durov even said that users should delete WhatsApp “unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day.” But Telegram can’t be described as a more-secure version of WhatsApp. The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. But Telegram says people want to keep their chat history when they get a new phone, and they like having a data backup that will sync their chats across multiple devices. And that is why they let people choose whether they want their messages to be encrypted or not. When not turned on, though, chats are stored on Telegram's services, which are scattered throughout the world. But it has "disclosed 0 bytes of user data to third parties, including governments," Telegram states on its website. The channel appears to be part of the broader information war that has developed following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin has paid Russian TikTok influencers to push propaganda, according to a Vice News investigation, while ProPublica found that fake Russian fact check videos had been viewed over a million times on Telegram.
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