In exchange for a reward provided through the “Reward for Justice” program of the US State Department, the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA), businessman Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin, as well as related Russian organizations and their partners, are specifically looking for information from informants about their participation in Interfering with US elections, writes record.
The Irish Republican Army is a giant Russian farm accused of interfering in the 2016 presidential election and is believed to have helped To Donald Trump Defeat Hillary Clinton.
According to the US government and private security researchers, this gang of cybergons, or coordinated troll farms, have created a virtual private network in the US and registered hundreds of fake social media accounts used to manufacture and spread fake news. According to the Department of Justice, the IRA’s work to undermine the US political system began as early as 2014 and has worked through several front-end companies, including Internet Research, MediaSintez, GlavSet, MixInfo, Azimut and NovInfo.
Chef and friends of Putin
The Cisco Talos I previously reported that by the summer of 2016, the troll farm was spending $1.25 million per month targeting Americans with messages on social media. Meanwhile, Prigozhin was the alleged financier behind the operation. The Russian oligarch has close ties to Putin, which has earned him the nickname “Putin’s Chef” for his restaurants and catering companies. The The FBI is also at large him to interfere in the elections. The FBI identified him as the main financier of the IRA.
Some of his companies, including Concord Management and Consulting and Concord Catering, are said to have sent money, referred workers and oversaw the activities of the IRA.
The $10 million reward offered by the US Department of Justice identifies dozens of additional Russian citizens who the State Department says carried out influence operations on the IRA in During the 2016 presidential electionThe list also includes:
- Mikhail Ivanovich Bystrov,
- Mikhail Leonidovich Borchik,
- Alexandra Yuryevna Krylova,
- Anna Vladislavna Pugacheva,
- Sergei Pavlovich Polozov,
- Maria Anatolyevna Bovda,
- Robert Sergeevich Bovda,
- Dzhekhun Nasimi Ogli Aslanov,
- Vadim Vladimirovich Podkobaev,
- Gleb Igorevich Vasilchenko,
- Irina Viktorovna Kaverzina
- and Vladimir Vinkov.
The 12 individuals, as well as Prigozhin and the IRA, were already indicted in 2018 after that Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s Investigation On Russian interference in the 2016 elections.
