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The US Treasury dropped sanctions on three companies related to Evil Corp after Lavrov's recent visit: https://twitter.com/dcpoll/status/1205544785446129664 htt
by throwaway5752 7y ago
The US Treasury dropped sanctions on three companies related to Evil Corp after Lavrov's recent visit: https://twitter.com/dcpoll/status/1205544785446129664 https://twitter.com/dcpoll/status/1205544785446129664 (which references https://twitter.com/jeffstone500/status/1205539378019360768 https://twitter.com/jeffstone500/status/1205539378019360768)
- 52-6F-62 7y agoI linked this article a while back. Didn't gain any traction here, but it's worth a read to understand some of the scale: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/12/members-of-evil-corp-the-cybercrime-group-that-lived-in-luxury-are-indicted/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/12/membe...
- cosmodisk 7y agoWell,I'm sure I'd be living large as well,if I was running criminal enterprise of this scale for the government...
- mc32 7y agoLooks like they revised the list after erroneously adding them. But they left others on. So right now any conclusion is speculative, unless you have better information. The mastermind, Yakubets, is still on the fbi’s most wanted list, FWIW.
- throwaway5752 7y agoYou are totally right. I don't have better information, although I have looked. If anyone else knows what those companies do and why they were removed, I'd be happy for any good news.
- lipnitsk 7y agoI read in the Russian news[1] that the removed companies were run by Gusev's namesakes. The name is common and the removed companies were registered in cities far away from Moscow. 1. https://meduza.io/news/2019/12/13/minfin-ssha-isklyuchil-iz-sanktsionnogo-spiska-tri-rossiyskie-kompanii-ih-vnesli-v-chernyy-list-iz-za-svyazi-s-chlenom-evil-corp https://meduza.io/news/2019/12/13/minfin-ssha-isklyuchil-iz-...