Head of ChronoPay Arrested In Moscow

Trailrunner7 writes "Pavel Vrublevsky, the head of a prominent Russian payment-processing company, ChronoPay, was arrested in Russia on suspicion of hiring someone to launch a denial-of-service attack against one of his company's main competitors. The arrest is the latest in a series of high-profile actions against people and groups around the world suspected of being involved in the global cybercrime ecosystem."

This is an internal affair

[Anonymous Coward]

This is an entirely internal Russian affair. If you think that pressure outside of Russia had any effect on this arrest, you have never been to Russia, and you don't understand how things work there. Pavel Vrublevsky's competitors were better connected in the Russian government, and they were able to pay more than Pavel Vrublevsky was able to pay.

If you think that arrests and such things that occur within Russia equate to arrests for similar reasons in the west, you are uninformed.

Re:So ...

[utkonos]

When you say Russian authorities, you seem to mean that there is one organization. There are many factions of siloviki in Russia. Putin is currently the top dog, but there are others. It is most likely that the ChronoPay disrupted the wrong company. That company complained to its protectors, and ChronoPay was stopped. ChronoPay's scareware operations do not step on the toes of any siloviki, so they are not a problem.

Re:So ...

[utkonos]

A good introduction to the siloviki is on the Exile: http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=13442&IBLOCK_ID=35 [exile.ru]