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The Netherlands and the United States indicted Russian intelligence officers: what happened

The Ministry of Defense of the Netherlands announced the prevention of a cyber attack on the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

Photos of suspects showed at a press conference. They had diplomatic passports. Photo: DUTCH GOVERNMENTS

13 April The Defense Intelligence and Security Service of the Netherlands prevented a GRU cyber attack targeting the OPCW in The Hague, said Defense Minister Ank Beyluveld at a press conference.

On the same day, four Russians were sent out of the country with diplomatic passports, which, according to the authorities of the Netherlands, are employees of the GRU.

The OPCW is involved in the investigation of chemical attacks in Syria and the poisoning of a former GRU officer, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury.

Operation details

According to the Dutch counterintelligence, the Russians converted their car into a mobile center for intercepting computer signals for the operation.

In the car, which stopped the Dutch counterintelligence, there was a lot of interesting equipment

There was a transformer and several batteries in the trunk. Inside the car there is a powerful computer, an antenna and a smartphone with a 4g SIM card. Hackers tried to intercept the login of people who were logging into a nearby network. The antenna was pointed at the OPCW headquarters building.

The moment of detention of the Russians. Photo: DUTCH GOVERNMENT

As soon as the equipment worked, the Dutch counterintelligence began their operation and detained the people in the car. At the same time, one of the Russians was trying to destroy his mobile phone.

Mobile phones seized from Russian detainees. One of them they tried to destroy right in the car. Photo: DUTCH MINISTRY OF DEFENSE

The detained Russians had with them 20 000 euros. Photo: DUTCH MINISTRY OF DEFENSE

A laptop was taken from one of the suspects, which, according to Ank Beyuveld, was used in Malaysia to gain unauthorized access to the MH-17 flight crash files in Donbass.

“We usually refrain from disclosing details of such transactions,” Beyleveld said. According to her, the Netherlands has now taken such a step to make Russia understand that “it’s time to stop this kind of operation.”

To the airport from the GRU

Photos of suspected Russians were shown at a press conference. Their names were also named: Alexey Morenets, Yevgeny Serebryakov, Oleg Sotnikov and Alexey Minin.

According to the Dutch military intelligence, all four are employees of the 5-th Main Center of the Special Service of the GRU.

During a joint press conference, a representative of the United Kingdom said that employees of the same military unit attacked the networks of the British Foreign Ministry shortly after the poisoning of Sergei Skripal in March of this year.

One of the suspects was reportedly found a taxi bill from Nesvizhsky Lane, where the GRU building is located, to Sheremetyevo Airport.

Photo: DUTCH MINISTRY OF DEFENSE

The Be Taxi company confirmed to RBC the authenticity of the receipt. “Yes, this is our receipt. The driver Tsvetkov is now on shift,” the company said.

In addition, one of the cell phones belonging to the suspects was activated near the GRU building.

What is known about suspects

At least two Russians mentioned by the Dutch Ministry of Defense may have been linked to the GRU by their place of residence. As the BBC found out, Alexei Minin’s registration address is Moscow, st. People's Militia, 50 - coincides with the address of the Conservatory. This is the informal name for the military academy of the Russian Ministry of Defense, where military intelligence officers and military attaches are trained.

According to the Dossier Center, in the mid-2000s, Anatoly Chepiga (aka Ruslan Boshirov), whom British authorities suspect of attempting to poison former GRU officer Sergei Skripal in March 2018 in Salisbury, studied at this academy.

Alexey Morenets, in turn, was registered at the address: Komsomolsky Ave., 20 - this is a military university of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. There is also a military unit located there, which American authorities suspect of hacking into the networks of the US Democratic Party in 2016.

As follows from the social networks, in 1999, Morenets graduated from the faculty of automated control systems and communications of the Military Space Academy. Mozhaisky.

A man named Evgeny Serebryakov is listed as the author of a scientific work on cryptography, released by the Center for Special Developments of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in 2014.

Its full title: “Reconstruction of a polynomially complicated linear recurrent of maximum period over a Galois ring from the highest coordinate sequence.”

The website of the Ministry of Defense states that the Special Development Center is designed to carry out innovative developments in various areas in the field of ensuring the security of communication and information systems.

Reaction

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that Russia is behaving irresponsibly and is trying to undermine the norms of international law.

European Council President Donald Tusk, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and EU Head of Diplomacy Federica Mogherini made a joint statement in which they expressed their concern about the situation.

The Russian Foreign Ministry called the Netherlands’ accusations against Russia of its involvement in an attempted cyber attack on the OPCW “spy mania.”

Vladimir Jabarov, deputy chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Council of the Federation, told RIA Novosti that Russia will mirror the expulsion of its citizens with diplomatic passports.

US Justice Department indicted seven Russians

Meanwhile, the US Department of Justice has charged seven Russians, who are considered to be officers of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Russia (GRU), for involvement in cyber attacks. According to the investigation, they are accused of cyber attacks, money laundering and illegal data collection, writes TJournal.

According to the Ministry of Justice, the Russians influenced the doping scandal and attacked WADA, as well as the International Football Federation (FIFA), the Court of Arbitration for Sport and the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). In total in the list 34 sports organizations, whose data on the athletes tried to get the defendants.

The names of the Russians who were charged:

  • Alexey Minin;
  • Alexey Morenets;
  • Yevgeny Serebryakov;
  • Artem Malyshev;
  • Ivan Ermakov;
  • Oleg Sotnikov;
  • Dmitry Badin.

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