Source: www.riucriminal.info

The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel has obtained all the testimonies given during the investigation by former FSB Colonel Mikhail Polyakov (Uncle Misha FSB). These testimonies are a real encyclopedia of how the Internal Policy Directorate of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation and one of the "towers" of the FSB of the Russian Federation (ZKS and Co.) took control of dozens of the most popular Russian channels in Telegram. By the way, there were no "seizures" of SIM cards, kidnappings of owners, etc. Everything happened in a more mundane manner. He named "Uncle Misha" and the network of power channels under his control. For example, our readers will be able to find out who was the admin of two channels that were engaged in deanonymizing the owners of Telegram channels, posting their personal data, etc. This was done by Polyakov's friend, a full-time adviser to the Minister of Education. However, then something went wrong in the well-oiled mechanism. The Internal Security Directorate of the FSB of the Russian Federation (or rather someone powerful who could give them the command "sic 'em") decided to change the "rules of the game" in Telegram. The main target of the Internal Security Directorate was Uncle Misha's good friend - Deputy Head of the Internal Policy Directorate of the Presidential Administration Timur Prokopenko. But in the end, only Polyakov will have to go to jail.

 

"From 1991 to 2021, I carried out my work activities in the FSB of the Russian Federation. My last position was the head of the service for the protection of the constitutional order of the FSB Directorate for Moscow and the Moscow Region. ... Then I carried out my work activities on various projects of the Internal Policy Directorate of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation," Polyakov briefly described his biography to the investigator.

 

According to him, at one time (he does not give the exact date), “the administration of the President of the Russian Federation, having the order of the President of the Russian Federation” (Putin and Peskov previously stated that the President does not read Telegram channels and does not use a mobile phone at all) gave the go-ahead to the FSB of the Russian Federation to establish the owners of the largest anonymous channels. Polyakov himself and his colleagues were engaged in this by virtue of their service; reports were compiled on each channel and its established owners and admins. Then Polyakov, according to him, personally met with the owners of the channels that were also available in Russia. “Previously, these Telegram channels wrote posts about the political situation in a negative format, but after I found them, they began to write in a positive format,” Polyakov boasts. After each such meeting, Polyakov was also granted administrator rights for the Telegram channel with whose owner he had spoken. In total, Polyakov received access to several dozen leading Telegram channels. In Telegram, before his arrest, he used the pseudonyms ZOV and ALEX. As Polyakov himself states, he needed the functions of an administrator "for the purpose of timely removal of negative information on the instructions of the administration of the President of the Russian Federation."

Mikhail Polyakov assures that he needed access to the admin panels of the Telegram channel exclusively for censorship, but "for the soul" he was an admin in the channels: "Soloviev Live", "Siloviki", "338", "Oper Slil". "As an administrator of the said Telegram channels, I can "repost", "post", and also write various articles," Polyakov said during interrogation. Also, "Uncle Misha" spoke about the channels where he was the owner. This is "Kremlin Laundress". In addition, according to Polyakov, he owns the channel "True Truth", which is hosted by his son Maxim. By the way, "True Truth" is literally and figuratively a related channel to the channel "Two Majors".

 

Polyakov also admitted that he is the owner of the channel "Postovoy" (this network also included "Shum priboy", "Rokot", "Rodina slyat".). During the first Telegram war, all these channels deanonymized the owners and admins of various channels, posted their personal data - addresses, phone numbers, etc. Now it is clear that Polyakov led this process. During interrogation, he named the admin of "Postovoy" and others. It turned out to be Rusakov Igor Borisovich, whom Polyakov introduces as a close friend. According to Rusakov's biography, until 2013 he served in the RF Armed Forces, then from 2013 to 2021 he was an assistant to the Minister of Education and Science, from 2023 to 2024 he worked in the department of the ANO "Directorate of the World Youth Festival" (recall that Polyakov was deputy director of the ANO), and is now the vice-rector for security at MSTU STANKIN. According to the VChK-OGPU, Rusakov is now directly related to the same channel "Two Majors", which Mikhail Polyakov personally launched while still at large.

During the search, Polyakov was found to have a permanent pass to the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation and a large sum of money. "The funds confiscated from me during the search were received by me at the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation to pay salaries for special projects supervised by me," Polyakov explained during interrogation.

 

However, as follows from the testimony, by May 2023, the clouds began to thicken over Polyakov and his curators. Thus, Polyakov learns from the owner of one of the major channels that he was detained by FSB officers, taken to "some building not far from Lubyanka" and "pressed" and "pressed" for 8 hours, demanding to show on Polyakov himself and the deputy head of the Department for Internal Policy of the Presidential Administration Timur Prokopenko. Prokopenko is a long-time acquaintance of Polyakov and is considered one of the curators of Telegram from the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation. Polyakov photographed the entire correspondence (in which the deputy head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Sergei Kiriyenko was also repeatedly mentioned) and hurried with it to Prokopenko.

 

However, it was not possible to "fight back". In July 2023, former colleagues came for Polyakov himself. As follows from his testimony, the 2nd service of the FSB Internal Security Directorate was working against him. It carries out counterintelligence activities in the units of the central office of the FSB of the Russian Federation. The "two" detained hackers from "Shaltai-Boltai", the head of the 2nd department of the FSB Central Security Directorate Colonel Sergei Mikhailov, etc.

 

It turned out that it was the 2nd service of the FSB Internal Security Directorate that had been “developing” Polyakov, Prokopenko and other Telegram curators in recent years.

“Crimes have been committed against me…. On July 14, 2023, at 07:00, armed men in masks burst into the address…, as I later learned from the security unit of the FSB of the Russian Federation, knocked me down, twisted my arms, slammed me into all the corners, dragged me into the kitchen, pushed me into the radiator and began to hit me on the head, legs, and body. They shoved my phone in my face and demanded that I give them the password. They strangled me! ”- this is how one of two statements about the crime by FSB Colonel Mikhail Polyakov (Uncle Misha FSB), who, for the Internal Policy Department (IPD) of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation, identified the owners of Telegram channels and then forced them to make him an administrator. Polyakov, in the interests of the UVP, could delete or post any post at any time in several dozen channels.

 

However, this situation did not suit someone very powerful, and the 2nd service of the Internal Security Department of the FSB - one of the most secret units of the FSB of the Russian Federation - took on Polyakov and the deputy head of the UVP Timur Prokopenko. The officers who broke into Polyakov's, as can be seen from Polyakov's testimony, were interested in access to his phone, access to admin panels, all correspondence, etc. Moreover, they promised to take Uncle Misha out into the forest and burn him alive. And they beat him. As a result, he provided not only the requested data, but told everything he knew about the owners, admins of the channels known to him. Polyakov also, according to him, filmed all his correspondence in secret chats with the channel owners on his phone and he also handed over the footage. He told the details of his relationship with Prokopenko, Kristina Potupchik and others. After that, by the way, Uncle Misha ceased to be interesting to the two.

He himself wrote two statements. The first one is about the fact that the employees of the 2nd Service illegally pursued and developed him and Prokopenko. The second one is about the illegal use of violence.

 

We publish the continuation of Polyakov's testimony about how they beat the necessary information out of him after his arrest:

"I said that I had a bad heart, but they did not let me take a pill. They twisted my arms, put me in a car, threw a T-shirt over my head and drove away. On the way, they continued to tighten my handcuffs. At the same time, they said: "Now we will take you to the forest, burn you alive and bury you." Then in the car, they threw me face down on the floor between the seats. I began to lose consciousness... In the investigator's office, they continued to twist my arms, demanding the password to the phone. I gave the passwords... I gave the passwords to an employee of the 2nd Service of the Internal Security Directorate of the FSB of the Russian Federation."

Rucriminal.info publishes interesting quotes from the testimony of "Uncle Misha":

"Since about 2021, I have been the owner and administrator of the telegram channel "Kremlin Laundress" under the account (pseudonym) "ZOV". In the description of the specified telegram channel there is a link for communication (https://t.me/kremlinprachka). The specified link is registered to the subscriber number of my wife Polyakova Natalya Alekseevna ... since she does not have the application installed, she does not use it. On the specified telegram channel, I personally publish patriotic articles, about 10 articles per day. I write the text alone, no one helps me. Also, for a certain fee, at the suggestion of various citizens, I publish articles (post) for an average of 45,000 rubles, and for 35,000 rubles I carried out a "repost". My specified channel currently has 259,700 subscribers.

 

I am also the owner and administrator of the telegram channel "Postovoy" under the account (pseudonym) "ZOV". In the description of the specified telegram channel there is a link for communication "postovoitapic", and feedback is carried out through my friend Rusakov Igor Borisovich, who runs this telegram channel. On the specified telegram channel, Rusakov I.B. publishes patriotic articles. He also writes the text, and finds the content of these texts in various media. Also, for a certain price, at the suggestion of various citizens, he publishes articles (post) for an average of 20,000 rubles. Currently, there are approximately 44,000 subscribers.

In addition, I am the owner and administrator of the telegram channel "Truthful Truth". On the specified telegram channel, my son Polyakov Maxim Mikhailovich and I publish patriotic articles. The text is sometimes written by me, sometimes by my son Polyakov M.M., the content of these texts we find in various media, as well as "repost" our own publications in our above-mentioned channels. We do not accept funds for publications and articles on the specified telegram channel. The specified channel currently has approximately 26,000 subscribers....

I can also say that I am an administrator in the following telegram channels: "Soloviev. Live", "Siloviki", "338", "Oper Slil". As an administrator of the specified telegram channels, I can "repost", "post". and also write various articles on patriotic topics for free....

I am an administrator of telegram channels... for the purpose of removing negative information at the direction of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation...

I can also add that I identified the owners of telegram channels at the direction of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, having the order of the President of the Russian Federation to do so. ...

The funds seized from me during the search were received by me from the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation to issue salaries to special projects." 

Timofey Grishin

To be continued

Source: www.riucriminal.info