Taxi receipt, records seem to link alleged hackers with GRU
Taxi receipt, records seem to link alleged hackers with GRU
It was assumed that April 12 would be another day at work for Alexei Morenets, the bald 41-year-old allegedly a piracy specialist at the scene for Russian military intelligence.
It was said that Morenets 'work for the agency, often abbreviated as GRU, involved the use of specialized equipment to access Wi-Fi networks and jump into victims' computers.
An FBI accusation made public on Thursday alleged that he had already worked in Brazil, where he traveled twice to Rio de Janeiro to try to break the networks used by anti-doping officials before and during the 2016 Olympic Games. According to the accusation, later He went to Lausanne, Switzerland, and checked into a hotel near where a senior anti-doping official was staying and helped others access the free Wi-Fi connection.
But that spring day, when Morenets entered the parking lot of a Marriott hotel in The Hague, things went terribly wrong for him and for three Russian colleagues. He and Alexey Minin, Oleg Sotnikov and Yevgeny Serebryakov were ambushed and detained by Dutch counterintelligence agents while trying to enter the Wi-Fi network of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, a global watchdog agency.
The episode was reported in unusually explicit detail in the US indictment and in a dramatic press conference in the Netherlands on Thursday.
The Dutch posted photos of the men's numbered diplomatic passports sequentially of the men, electronic search equipment in the trunk of their car and samples of euros and $ 100 bills. But among the most damning evidence was a taxi receipt allegedly seized from Morenets and which showed a trip on April 10 from the GRU headquarters in Moscow to the capital's international airport.
News organizations, including The Associated Press, sought to corroborate the allegations, a repeat of the open-source treasure hunt that followed the departure of two alleged GRU agents after the poisoning of former GRU officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter in England, or the United States accusation of 12 GRU officers in July for hacking to interfere in the 2016 presidential elections.
A few hours after the name of Morenets was made public, the Russian news website RBC arrived at the taxi company that appears on the receipt and confirmed its authenticity.
A man whose full name and date of birth coincides with that of Morenets was shown selling his car in 2004 and listing the Military University of the Ministry of Defense in Moscow as his address, according to a car registration database examined by AP.
The Russian media also corroborated Morenets' military connection. The Russian news website The Project spoke with five of its former classmates, including three graduates from the IT faculty of the Mozhaisky Space Military Academy, who identified Morenets in the photo published by the Dutch; and two other students said their personal details match those of a man who was in their class who graduated in 1999.
Attempts by the AP to reach classmates through social networks were not immediately successful.
Serebryakov, 37, listed by the FBI as one of the other piracy specialists on the GRU site, seems to enjoy a discreet lifestyle that combines amateur sports and high-level cryptography.
He played in the Russian Amateur Football League between 2011 and 2012, according to the group's website. Serebryakov placed the "free agent" as his affiliation on the league website and appears to have continued to change teams, but he always played for those located in northwest Moscow. He is close to the group of experts from the Ministry of Defense where he was working at the time and wrote a 16-page research paper on cryptography published in 2014 and still available online. The Ministry of Defense describes the think tank, the Special Investigation Center, as being involved in the investigation of "communications security and information systems".
Serebryakov and Morenets also seem to have similar travel documents. The photos of the Dutch Ministry of Defense show that Serebryakov's passport is only one digit from that of Morenets.
It is said that Minin, a 40-year-old man with a short black beard, rented the modest team sedan in Holland. The records show that he performed messaging services for the state company that administers the state graduation exams in Russia. A June spreadsheet shows Minin handing out exams to a high school in southeast Moscow and lists him as an employee of a state "special communications" department.
The car registration database shows that Minin listed 50 Narodnogo Opolcheniya and Military Unit 22177 as his domicile. The four-story beige and yellow building in the direction is surrounded by a fence with the five-pointed star of the Ministry of Defense. It is the home of the Military Academy of the Ministry of Defense, one of the most prestigious schools in Russia for military intelligence officers.
Records show that he bought and sold at least three vehicles between 2000 and 2004, including an Alfa Romeo.
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