Media reported the arrest of a top Manager of “Kaspersky Lab” – RBK

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One of the top managers of “Kaspersky Lab” from December is in jail “Lefortovo”. He takes on the case of treason

according to the newspaper “Kommersant” with reference to close to the FSB source, at the end of December was arrested the head of the Department for investigation of cybercrime, “Kaspersky Lab” Ruslan Stoyanov. Currently he is in jail “Lefortovo”. The publication claims that the arrest Stoyanov may be associated with the investigation in respect of one of the Deputy heads of the information security center of the FSB Sergei Mikhailov.

the newspaper’s Sources claim that the investigation against Mikhailov, the lead Management of own safety of FSB. He was suspected of violating article 275 of the Russian criminal code (“treason”). Mikhailov allegedly received money from one of the foreign organizations with the mediation of the representative of the Russian company in the field of information security.

the Interlocutors of “Kommersant” claim that the case against Mikhailov could affect the market of cyber security and e-Commerce. According to them, that Mikhailov “in fact was in charge of all Internet business in Russia”. Chronopay founder Pavel Vrublevsky says that the FSB “determined by informal policy of the whole industry.” In addition, he was part of a cluster of information security of the Russian Association of electronic communications.

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According to the newspaper, the top Manager of “Kaspersky Lab” Stoyanov until 2006 he worked in the Department of special technical actions of the Moscow police (“K”).