Run from the USA, a network of bots that spread fakes dismantled in Russia – video
Published on 6.12.2022
Sputnik reports that the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) published a video of the arrest of a Colombian who spread false information about the Russian army. He confessed to the FSB that he had created a network of bots at the request of an American organization. The investigation made it possible to find the smartphones used to send the mass messages.
Russian investigators have found the hiding place where the smartphones used to send misinformation on the Russian operation in Ukraine, learned Sputnik from the file of which it became aware.
This discovery was made as part of an investigation targeting a Colombian residing in Russia. This foreign citizen is accused of having participated in sending fake news about the Russian army, in complicity with Americans, between March 5 and April 9.
During interrogations, the 40-year-old admitted his involvement but claimed that he only provided technical support for a network of computer bots.
Alberto Enrique Giraldo Saray hid several phones in the locker room of a gymnasium located in a shopping center in Moscow. In an official video, it is possible to see the devices connected to batteries, taken out of a bag.
” They [commanditaires] asked to find crowded public places. It was to have a large flow of data transfer from various phones, ”he explained to Sputnik.
Anonymous accomplices in North America
According to him, the real organizers of the network were anonymous accomplices living in North America. They used smartphones through special software installed by this Colombian.
The investigation revealed the involvement of Digital Humanity, an American non-profit organization, in this case. Linked to the US State Department, the collective is also involved in imitation interference in the US presidential elections during the summer of 2020, according to the investigation. This, while Washington accused Russia of intervention in the holding of the poll.
fake news
During the spring of 2022, thousands of residents of the regions surrounding Ukraine received messages about allegedly huge losses of the Russian armed forces during the military operation. These messages written in Russian also included calls to demonstrate.
Some citizens filed a complaint for provocation. An investigation was launched, the Colombian national was arrested in April in Moscow. After several months of investigation, it was completed in early December.
Like the broadcast false information on the Russian army during this military operation is punishable by law, the defendant could be sentenced to between five and ten years in prison.
