On or about the dates identified below, Defendants and their co-conspirators obtained and used the following fraudulent bank account numbers for the purpose of evading PayPals security measures: 93. Defendants also procured and used computer infrastructure, based partly in the United States, to hide the Russian origin of their activities and to avoid detection by U.S. regulators and law enforcement. They were confronted by a large group of anti-racist counterprotestors, and some violent clashes ensued. obscured its conduct by operating through a number of Russian entities, including Internet Research Agency LLC ("IRA"), Internet Research LLC, MediaSintez LLC, GlavSet LLC, Mixlnfo LLC, Azimut LLC, Nov Info LLC, Nevskiy News LLC (a/k/a "NevNov"), Economy Today LLC, National News LLC, Federal News Agency LLC (a/k/a "FAN"), and International [16] They work for 12 hours every other two days. The "Trolls of Olgino" are considered to be his project. 73. Over time, these social media accounts became Defendants means to reach significant numbers of Americans for purposes of interfering with the U.S. political system, including the presidential election of 2016. [105], The realization that you can invent any fact, then watch it absolutely synchronized with the media outlets as one massive information outflow and spread worldwide that absolutely breaks your psyche, On 16 February 2018, 13 individuals were indicted by the Washington, D.C. grand jury for alleged illegal interference in the 2016 presidential elections, during which they strongly supported the candidacy of Donald Trump, according to special counsel Robert Mueller's office. Reports via screenshots. The requirement for the working hours for the trolls is also mentioned: 50 comments under news articles per day. Defendants and their co-conspirators, through fraud and deceit, created hundreds of social media accounts and used them to develop certain fictitious U.S. personas into leader[s] of public opinion in the United States. "SecureBorders" was an IRA account. 44. 24. A Trump supporter suggests to the IRA Twitter account "March for Trump" that it contact a Trump campaign official. On or about September 9, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators sent the group an interstate wire to pay for materials needed for the Florida rally on or about September 11, 2016. 58. MIXINFO LLC; a.k.a. 981(a)(l )(C) and 982; 28 U.S.C. (Conspiracy to Defraud the United States). If any of the property described above as being subject to forfeiture, as a result of any act or omission of any defendant --. Using these means of identification, Defendants and their co-conspirators opened accounts at PayPal, a digital payment service provider; created false means of identification, including fake drivers licenses; and posted on ORGANIZATION-controlled social media accounts using the identities of these U.S. victims. Save American Muslims rally. Paragraphs 1 through 7, 9 through 27, and 29 through 85 of this Indictment are re-alleged and incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein. VASILCHENKO later served as the head of two sub-groups focused on operations to interfere in the U.S. political system, including the 2016 U.S. presidential election. 61. Defendants and their co-conspirators also created and controlled numerous Twitter accounts designed to appear as if U.S. persons or groups controlled them. The American Department was headed by Jeykhun Aslanov, an Azerbaijani who, in October 2017, was 27. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.2, notice is hereby given to Defendants that the United States will seek forfeiture as part of any sentence in accordance with Title 18, United States Code, Sections 981(a)(1)(C) and 982(a)(2), and Title 28, United States Code, Section 2461(c), in the event of Defendants' convictions under Count Two of this Indictment. The most prominent methods of misinformation were "organic posting, not advertisements", and influence operation activity increased after the 2016 and was not limited to the 2016 election. 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The ad was for the IRA's Back the Badge Facebook group and showed a badge with the words "Back the Badge" in front of police lights under the caption "Community of people who support our brave Police Officers. On or about the same day, Defendants and their co-conspirators used the false U.S. persona joshmilton024@gmail.com account to send an email to Campaign Official 2 at that donaldtrump.com email account. MIKHAIL LEONIDOVICH BURCHIK, ALEKSANDRA YURYEVNA KRYLOVA, [83], "LGBT United" organized a candlelight vigil on 25 June 2016, for the Pulse nightclub shooting victims in Orlando, Florida. FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, CONCORD MANAGEMENT AND CONSULTING LLC, (18 U.S.C. Journalists concluded that Igor Osadchiy was a probable leader of the project, and the campaign itself was run by Internet Research Agency Ltd. Osadchiy denied his connection to the agency. The group contacted the Texas Nationalist Movement, a secessionist organization, to help with organizing efforts, but they declined to help. This page was last edited on 11 March 2018, at 23:40. Upon conviction of the offense charged in Count Two, Defendants INTERNET RESEARCH AGENCY LLC, DZHEYKHUN NASIMI OGLY ASLANOV, and GLEB JGOREVICH VASILCHENKO shall forfeit to the United States any property, real or personal, which constitutes or is derived from proceeds traceable to the offense of conviction. The specialists were divided into day-shift and night-shift hours and instructed to make posts in accordance with the appropriate U.S. time zone. The information included in the Services, which Lursoft receives as a re-user from the data source, is provided to the user, ensuring the correctness and accuracy of the information content (consistency of the nature of the information). INTERNET RESEARCH AGENCY LLC no Krievija (zinms ar k GLAVSET, OOO, MEDIASINTEZ, OOO, NOVINFO LLC, MEDIASINTEZ LLC, GLAVSET LLC, MIXINFO LLC u.c.) [76] On the same day, Tumblr announced that they had banned 84 accounts linked to IRA, saying that they had spread misinformation through conventional postings rather than advertisements. 97. The IRA paid for expenses such as microphones and speakers. Defendants also staged political rallies inside the United States, and while posing as U.S. grassroots entities and U.S. persons, and without revealing their Russian identities and ORGANIZATION affiliation, solicited and compensated real U.S. persons to promote or disparage candidates. 63. After being pressed on who they were and who supported them, "Don't Shoot" agreed to move the protest to St. Anthony police headquarters. On or about August 31, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators created and purchased Facebook advertisements for a rally they organized and scheduled in New York for September 11, 2016. 52. " " "-2". USA v. Internet Research Agency LLC et al: Criminal Indictment. It was situated in a white cottage,[10] 15 minutes by an underground railway from Staraya Derevnia station, opposite Olgino railway station. U.S. law also bars agents of any foreign entity from engaging in political activities within the United States without first registering with the Attorney General. 9. 45. No one attended the Lubbock rally. Defendant ORGANIZATION received funding for its operations from Defendant YEVGENIY VIKTOROVICH PRIGOZHIN and companies he controlled, including Defendants CONCORD MANAGEMENT AND CONSULTING LLC and CONCORD CATERING (collectively CONCORD). [75], On 2 May 2016, a second rally was held in Buffalo, New York, protesting the death of India Cummings. 2, 371, 1349, 1028A). . Feb 16, 2018 Description This document charges three organizations and thirteen Russian individuals with Conspiracy to Defraud the United States and Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud and Bank Fraud related to actions before and after the 2016 Presidential Election designed to manipulate American politics. Defendants and their co-conspirators issued or received guidance on: ratios of text, graphics, and video to use in posts; the number of accounts to operate; and the role of each account (for example, differentiating a main account from which to post information and auxiliary accounts to promote a main account through links and reposts). The Internet Research Agency (IRA; Russian: -, romanized:Agentstvo internet-issledovaniy), also known as Glavset (Russian: )[1] and known in Russian Internet slang as the Trolls from Olgino (Russian: ), is a Russian company engaged in online propaganda and influence operations on behalf of Russian business and political interests. They engaged in operations primarily intended to communicate derogatory information about Hillary Clinton, to denigrate other candidates such as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, and to support Bernie Sanders and then-candidate Donald Trump. Intelligence-Gathering to Inform U.S. Operations. 30. On or about August 31, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators, using a U.S. persona, spoke by telephone with a real U.S. person affiliated with a grassroots group in Florida. 37. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.2, notice is hereby given to Defendants that the United States will seek forfeiture as part of any sentence in accordance with Title 18, United States Code, Sections 98l(a)(l)(C) and 982(a)(2), and Title 28, United States Code, Section 2461(c), in the event of Defendants' convictions under Count Two of this Indictment. In addition, Defendants and their co-conspirators contacted administrators of large social media groups focused on U.S. politics and requested that they advertise the rallies. The Federal Election Commission is a federal agency that administers the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA). Additionally, and in order to maintain their accounts at PayPal and elsewhere, including online cryptocurrency exchanges, Defendants and their co-conspirators purchased and obtained false identification documents, including fake U.S. drivers licenses. Defendants CONCORD and PRIGOZHIN spent significant funds to further the ORGANIZATIONs operations and to pay the remaining Defendants, along with other uncharged ORGANIZATION employees, salaries and bonuses for their work at the ORGANIZATION. The official is emailed by the agency. 80. [66] In November 2017, The Guardian cited a University of Edinburgh study which found that hundreds of IRA accounts were also trying to influence UK politics by tweeting about Brexit. [93], "BlackMattersUS", an IRA website, recruited activists to participate in protests on the days immediately following 20 September 2016, police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina. 66. [4] Each commentator has a daily quota of 100 comments. 86. In or around 2016, BURCHIK also had in-person meetings with PRIGOZHIN. As of October 2014, the company belonged to Mikhail Bystrov, who had been the head of the police station at Moscow district of Saint Petersburg. A possibly related organization, FAN or Federal News Agency, was located in the building. 13694, as amended, for having acted for or on behalf of INTERNET RESEARCH AGENCY LLC, a person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to E.O. [W]e gained a huge lot of followers and decided to somehow help Mr. Trump get elected. 17. 83. [49][50] German-language media websites were also flooded with pro-Russia comments in the spring of 2014. Lawrence High School students did not participate in the counter protest because they were skeptical of the counter protest organizers. [80], On 23 April 2016, a small group of white-power demonstrators held a rally they called "Rock Stone Mountain" at Stone Mountain Park near Stone Mountain, Georgia. Criminal Documents Fraud Indictment Russia United States District Court for the District of Columbia USA February 16, 2018 USA v. Internet Research Agency LLC et al: Criminal Indictment Indictment alleging "operations to interfere with the U.S. political system, including the 2016 U.S. presidential election" in USA v. On or about August 24, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators updated an internal ORGANIZATION list of over 100 real U.S. persons contacted through ORGANIZATION-controlled false U.S. persona accounts and tracked to monitor recruitment efforts and requests. Optikov, d. 4 korp. [17][28] As reported by journalists, the building is officially an uncompleted construction and stayed as such as of March 2015. ASLANOV was too registered figura the overall impresario of Azimut LLC, an quintessence utilized headed for impel assets as of Concordance in the direction of the Consortium. 29. [2] It is linked to Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin and based in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The political advertisements included the following: Staging U.S. 64. Save American Muslims rally, including the poster with the quote attributed to Clinton that read I think Sharia Law will be a powerful new direction of freedom.. MixInfo LLC, Azimut LLC, and NovInfo LLC. [8] In 2013, Novaya Gazeta newspaper reported that Internet Research Agency Ltd's office was in Olgino, a historic district of Saint Petersburg. They tracked the size of the online U.S. audiences reached through posts, different types of engagement with the posts (such as likes, comments, and reposts), changes in audience size, and other metrics. 41. Special Counsel Local activists contacted "Don't Shoot." Defendants and their co-conspirators also registered and controlled hundreds of web-based email accounts hosted by U.S. email providers under false names so as to appear to be U.S. persons and groups. INTERNET RESEARCH AGENCY LLC from Russia (also known as GLAVSET, OOO, MEDIASINTEZ, OOO, NOVINFO LLC, MEDIASINTEZ LLC, GLAVSET LLC, MIXINFO LLC etc.) (Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud and Bank Fraud). Defendant YEVGENIY VIKTOROVICH PRIGOZHIN ( ) is a Russian national who controlled CONCORD. The January 2017 report issued by the United States Intelligence Community Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections described the agency as a troll farm: "The likely financier of the so-called Internet Research Agency of professional trolls located in Saint Petersburg is a close ally of [Vladimir] Putin with ties to Russian intelligence," commenting that "they previously were devoted to supporting Russian actions in Ukraine[and] started to advocate for President-elect Trump as early as December 2015.". It's free to sign up and bid on jobs. 31. consulting llc, concord catering, yevgeniy viktorovich . included in SDN sanction list with id: 23943 A commenter's norm is 126 comments and two posts per account. ORGANIZATION employees, referred to as specialists, were tasked to create social media accounts that appeared to be operated by U.S. persons. A "Blue Lives Matter" counter protest was held across the street. Copyright 1997-2022 OffshoreAlert. Starting in or around 2014, the ORGANIZATION occupied an office at 55 Savushkina Street in St. Petersburg, [35] Many other employees work remotely. "Russian bots, trolls test waters ahead of US midterms", "Facebook Identifies an Active Political Influence Campaign Using Fake Accounts", "Is a New Russian Meddling Tactic Hiding in Plain Sight? Specially Designated Nationals List Update The following individuals have been added to OFAC's SDN List: KUZMIN, Denis Igorevich, Russia; DOB 18 Dec 1990; Gender Male (individual) [ELECTION-EO13848] (Linked To: INTERNET RESEARCH AGENCY LLC). Disclosure of the required information allows the federal government and the American people to evaluate the statements and activities of such persons in light of their function as foreign agents. 50. She was said to have managed a $16million budget. Foreign individuals who are required to obtain a visa must, among other things, provide truthful information in response to questions on the visa application form, including information about their employment and the purpose of their visit to the United States. Lursoft IT 1997-2022 Lursoft is the re-user of information from the Enterprise Register of Latvia. To undo a search, click the search button without any text in the bar to have it reset. 74. 85. GlavSet LLC, a.k.a. [32][33][34] Beginning in February 2018, they are also known as the "Lakhta Trolls" (Russian: ). On or about August 16, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used a false U.S. persona Instagram account connected to the ORGANIZATION-created group Tea Party News to purchase advertisements for the Florida Goes Trump rally. And we must win Florida. 99. " " : " " " ". 27. 14. The @TEN_GOP account falsely claimed to be controlled by a U.S. state political party. SERGEY PAVLOVICH POLOZOV, 33. 40. The conspiracy had as its object the opening of accounts under false names at U.S. financial institutions and a digital payments company in order to receive and send money into and out of the United States to support the ORGANIZATIONs operations in the United States and for self-enrichment. ANNA VLADISLAVOVNA BOGACHEVA, Defendant ROBERT SERGEYEVICH BOVDA ( ) (R. [11][8][12] The political scientist Thomas Rid has said that the IRA was the least effective of all Russia's interference campaigns in the 2016 U.S. election, despite its outsized press coverage, and that it made no measurable impact on American voters. Search for jobs related to Internet research agency indictment pdf or hire on the world's largest freelancing marketplace with 20m+ jobs. ", "Among all the candidates Donald Trump is the one and only who can defend the police from terrorists. Beginning in or around June 2014, the ORGANIZATION obscured its conduct by operating through a number of Russian entities, including Internet Research LLC, MediaSintez LLC, GlavSet LLC, MixInfo LLC, Azimut LLC, and NovInfo LLC. [31] The Columbian Chemicals Plant explosion hoax on 11 September 2014, was the work of Internet Research Agency. [a] They reported that the organizer of this system is the former anti-Ukrainian combatant Sergiy Zhuk from Donbass. 38. Actions Targeting the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. Included among the employees are artists who draw political cartoons. 71. . That individual requested assistance in organizing a rally in Miami, Florida. [17][28], Employees at the Olgino office earned 25,000 Russian rubles per month; those at the Savushkina Street office earned approximately 40,000 Russian rubles. MEDIASINTEZ LLC; a.k.a. Peterburg. On or about August 20, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used the Matt Skiber Facebook account to contact Campaign Official 3. [58][59], The United States Justice Department announced the indictment on 16 February 2018, of the Internet Research Agency while also naming more than a dozen individual suspects who allegedly worked there as part of the special counsel's investigation into criminal interference with the 2016 election. [18], Despite links to Alexei Soskovets, Nadejda Orlova, deputy head of the Committee for Youth Policy in Saint Petersburg, disputed a connection between her institution and the trolling offices. The IRA Facebook group LGBT United organizes a candlelight vigil for the Pulse nightclub shooting victims in, The IRA's Facebook account "Stop AI" accuses Clinton of voter fraud during the. Russia Today). a/k/a mikhail abramov, aleksandra yuryevna krylova, anna vladislavovna . iekauts SDN sankciju sarakst ar id: 23943 The IRA used its Blacktivist Facebook account to reach out, to no avail, to activist and academic Barbara Williams Emerson, the daughter of Hosea Williams, to help promote the protests. GLAVSET LLC;. [86][87], A Black Lives Matter protest rally was held in Dallas on 10 July 2016. Defendant INTERNET RESEARCH AGENCY LLC ( ) is a Russian organization engaged in political and electoral interference operations. Defendant INTERNET RESEARCH AGENCY LLC ("ORGANIZATION") is a Russian organization engaged in operations to interfere with elections and political processes. Multiple photos released by the FBI show Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin, who funds the St. Petersburg-based troll factory Internet Research Agency LLC. Individual schedule [] Payment every week, 1180 per shift (from 8.00 to 16.00, from 10.30 to 18.30, from 14.00 to 22.00). Both Facebook groups were later revealed to be IRA accounts. On or about June 4, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used allforusa@yahoo.com, the email address of a false U.S. persona, to send out press releases for the March for Trump rally to New York media outlets. To hide their Russian identities and ORGANIZATION affiliation, Defendants and their co-conspiratorsparticularly POLOZOV and the ORGANIZATIONs IT departmentpurchased space on computer servers located inside the United States in order to set up virtual private networks (VPNs). "LGBT United" was an IRA account that appears to have been created specifically for this event. ASLANOV was also listed as the general director of Azimut LLC, an entity used to move funds from CONCORD to the ORGANIZATION. By early 2018, Facebook suspended 70 accounts linked to the Internet Research Agency: Topical timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, Timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, Timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections (July 2016 election day), Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections, attempting to influence the 2016 United States presidential election. Subsequently, there were news reports of individuals receiving monetary compensation for performing these tasks. Castille had been shot by a St. Anthony police officer in nearby Falcon Heights. The second rally was called Down with Hillary and held on July 23, 2016. 68. Upon conviction of the offenses charged in Counts Three through Eight, Defendants INTERNET RESEARCH AGENCY LLC, DZHEYKHUN NASIMI OGLY ASLANOV, GLEB IGOREVICH VASILCHENKO, IRINA VIKTOROVNA KAVERZINA, and VLADIMIR VENKOV shall forfeit to the United States any property, real or personal, which constitutes or is derived from proceeds traceable to the offense(s) of conviction. [84][85], IRA's "Don't Shoot" Facebook group and affiliated "Don't Shoot Us" website tried to organize a protest outside St. Paul, Minnesota police headquarters on 10 July 2016, in response to the 6 July fatal police shooting of Philando Castile.
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