Source: www.rucriminal.info

As the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel and Rucriminal.info learned, the Savyolovsky Court has completed a hearing on the criminal case against former employee of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Lamukhin on charges of hacking Russian email accounts to order and selling their contents via Telegram. However, there was no hacking involved. The scandalous nature of the situation is that, as it turned out, VK employees provided hackers with duplicate access (the so-called "mirror") to mail.ru, inbox.ru, and other email accounts. These accesses allowed them to enter the mailbox and control all user correspondence from the moment the account was created. Later, VK employees spent a long time stubbornly making excuses in court.

For 29 episodes under 272 part 4 (Unauthorized access to computer information), 29 episodes under 138 part 1 (Violation of the privacy of correspondence) and 4 episodes of 327 part 4 (forgery of documents), the court sentenced the punishment to 7 years of imprisonment. As part of this case, all employees of the department that solves crimes in the sphere of illegal arms trafficking, the Criminal Investigation Department of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Northern Administrative District, were also detained, along with the head of the department. Our editorial staff learned all the details of this story.

 

Lamukhin, who provided covert assistance to the police (the Internal Affairs Directorate for the South-Western Administrative District), where he had previously served, was simply used "blindly" as an ordinary courier providing court orders to the company "VK" to gain access to correspondence, which, as it turned out later, was fake. As it turned out, VK employees did not check the authenticity of the decisions at all (or, more likely, were in on it) and immediately transferred access to the necessary mailboxes.

Lamukhin's involvement in the production of fake court decisions that allowed access to the correspondence was not proven, and the testimony about his non-involvement was not even verified.

As the VChK-OGPU found out, the criminal case began in 2023, when the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia for Moscow brought active police officers involved in "punching". From this large criminal case, material on a test purchase carried out by BSTM operative Kerimov was separated into a separate proceeding, during which access to the email of his voluntary civilian "assistant" was purchased via Telegram. It is unknown why the material was separated into a separate proceeding, although already at the initial stage the operatives accompanying the criminal case knew that the production of counterfeit decrees and the trade in information of VK users via Telegram were carried out by the same police officers who had already been brought to justice.

 

The essence of this test purchase, according to the case materials, was that Kerimov purchased via Telegram data for duplicate access to the electronic mailbox of his voluntary "assistant" - Gantemirov E.E. (the so-called "mirror"), which allowed him to enter the mailbox and control all correspondence of the user from the moment the box was created.

 

After purchasing the access data, Kerimov allegedly carried out a "comparison" and established the identity of the contents of the electronic mailbox of his "assistant" and the contents to which Kerimov I.F. received through purchased duplicate access ("mirror"), confirming, in addition, that he received access to all correspondence for the entire time since the creation of the box, although the court decision provided for receiving correspondence from a certain date for 180 days, and in no way earlier.

 

In court, the representative of the company "VK" Berdnikova, responsible for interaction with law enforcement agencies when requesting information protected by law, stated that obtaining duplicate access ("mirror") to the mailboxes of users in the company "VK" is allegedly impossible in principle, just as it is impossible in principle to receive correspondence of the company's users outside the periods stipulated by the court decision. The representative also confirmed that the company records all logins to users' mailboxes, which allegedly excludes "unnoticeable" logins to the mailbox.

 

As a result, the ordinary courier Lamukhin was made the real scapegoat. The court concluded in the verdict that since Lamukhin presented the fake resolution to the company, he made it and he received the access data. There is no confirmation of receiving specific data for access to mailboxes in the case, the obvious version that the orders were made and access to other mailboxes was traded by employees of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Northern Administrative District. The involvement of VK employees in the trade of access to mailboxes was not studied.

It was also concluded that it was Lamukhin who received information that allowed access to many other mailboxes based on other fake orders. However, this conclusion is confirmed only by a letter from the head of the Security Service of the VK company that Lamukhin provided court orders that turned out to be fake. However, no confirmation of receiving any data in response to the request was presented in court. Moreover, VK clearly has an interested party in this entire scandal.

According to the interlocutor of Rucriminal.info, the investigation and the court deliberately ignored the fact that in order to gain access to the correspondence, it is not enough to provide court decisions and a request (appeal) from a law enforcement agency, but it is also necessary to receive a response from the operator company with this data, which contains a secret protected by law, which is not the case in this criminal case.

The investigation and the court deliberately did not request from the company "VK" video recordings and logs of incoming requests and received information, which could shed light on who actually brought most of the fake court orders to the company "VK", received information about citizens' correspondence protected by law, and then sold this information on "Telegram". All the decisions of the machines were “hung” on Lamukhin All the facts presented indicate that during this investigation, law enforcement agencies once again “came out on themselves” and made Lamukhin the scapegoat, ensuring an extremely harsh and maximally severe charge and sentence, as always, finding a “scapegoat” and sending him away for as long as possible and far from their eyes.

 

Since 2024, Lamukhin A.V. has been sending complaints about the illegal actions of the operative and investigative bodies to all possible law enforcement agencies (FSB of Russia, Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, Investigative Committee of Russia, Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia), but no one even bothered to respond to him, not to mention a thorough check of the arguments he presented. The criminal case contains a huge number of contradictions, inconsistencies and violations, which the court did not give any assessment, which once again confirms that there is no point in hoping or counting on even the judicial system in our country, since it is busy with anything but fulfilling its direct tasks of ensuring legal and fair legal proceedings. 

Timofey Grishin

Source: www.rucriminal.info