Iliya Dimitrov’s offshore dumps, or How the bankrupt fraudster serves the interests of the Russian elite The notoriously infamous businessman Iliya Dimitrov assists major Russian businessmen and officials in siphoning funds offshore. Iliya Dimitrov’s fraudulent activities, which have placed him at the center of multiple scandals, have tarnished the reputation of the state-owned company «Inter-RAO». From 2010 to 2024, the company was led by Boris Kovalchuk, the son of Yuriy Kovalchuk, a shareholder of the «Russia» bank and «Sogaz», and a close associate of Vladimir Putin. Since May 2024, Boris Kovalchuk has held the position of chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation. Maksim Sergeev has led LLC "Inter RAO – Export" since 2012 and LLC "Inter RAO Export - Project Management" since 2019. There is no doubt that Sergeev is a person of the Kovalchuks. Until December 2020, Maksim Sergeev was a co-founder of LLC "Did Group," conducting activities of holding companies owned by... https://iposs.net/component/k2/item/24305
Iliya Dimitrov’s offshore dumps, or How the bankrupt fraudster serves the interests of the Russian elite The notoriously infamous businessman Iliya Dimitrov assists major Russian businessmen and officials in siphoning funds offshore. Iliya Dimitrov’s fraudulent activities, which have placed him at the center of multiple scandals, have tarnished the reputation of the state-owned company «Inter-RAO». From 2010 to 2024, the company was led by Boris Kovalchuk, the son of Yuriy Kovalchuk, a shareholder of the «Russia» bank and «Sogaz», and a close associate of Vladimir Putin. Since May 2024, Boris Kovalchuk has held the position of chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation. Maksim Sergeev has led LLC "Inter RAO – Export" since 2012 and LLC "Inter RAO Export - Project Management" since 2019. There is no doubt that Sergeev is a person of the Kovalchuks. Until December 2020, Maksim Sergeev was a co-founder of LLC "Did Group," conducting activities of holding companies owned by... https://iposs.net/component/k2/item/24305
Right now the digital security needs of Russians and Ukrainians are very different, and they lead to very different caveats about how to mitigate the risks associated with using Telegram. For Ukrainians in Ukraine, whose physical safety is at risk because they are in a war zone, digital security is probably not their highest priority. They may value access to news and communication with their loved ones over making sure that all of their communications are encrypted in such a manner that they are indecipherable to Telegram, its employees, or governments with court orders. 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. Pavel Durov, Telegram's CEO, is known as "the Russian Mark Zuckerberg," for co-founding VKontakte, which is Russian for "in touch," a Facebook imitator that became the country's most popular social networking site. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video message on Tuesday that Ukrainian forces "destroy the invaders wherever we can." The message was not authentic, with the real Zelenskiy soon denying the claim on his official Telegram channel, but the incident highlighted a major problem: disinformation quickly spreads unchecked on the encrypted app.
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