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The December arrest of Ruslan Stoyanov , Kaspersky’s head of computer incidents investigation, was the result of claims that he passed state secrets to US companies.
His arrest followed accusations made as long ago as 2010 by Russian businessman Pavel Vrublevsky, founder of Russian online payments company ChronoPay, suggesting that Stoyanov and others had passed on „secrets“ to US companies, including Verisign’s iDefense cyber crime unit.
„I can confirm we (Chronopay) expect to be part of this case. In 2010, we provided the FSB [the Russian security services] and other important Russian agencies with evidence that at least one FSB employee, as well as several other people, were involved in treason,“ Vrublevsky told Reuters.
Vrublevsky claimed that Stoyanov passed on information to other companies, but only named Verisign.
