Knew a lot.
“Putin’s chief wiretapping expert” in Russia has died mysteriously.
Anton Cherepennikov, a 40-year-old millionaire and the founder of the IT company IKS-holding, was found dead in his Moscow office.
The firm developed software for Russian special services, in particular, for tracking, listening and intercepting messages.
The British newspaper Daily Mirror writes with reference to a “source in the Russian opposition” that Cherepennikov was “absolutely a key tool of Putin’s repression.”
“It cannot be ruled out that he was deliberately killed, as the security apparatus is desperate because of the failures of the war,” a source told the Daily Mirror.
According to the calculations of the British newspaper Sun, there have already been about four dozen such suspicious deaths since the beginning of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the journalists claim.
