CNS: In lawsuit, Mining firm accuses Renit Akhmetshin, who met with Jr., of being hired HACKER.

[pnwmom]

http://www.courthousenews.com/mining-company-sayslaw-firm-hacked-it/

MANHATTAN (CN) – A law firm and a man accused of being a former Soviet spy hacked into a mining company’s computers to get an upper hand in overseas litigation, the company claims.

International Mineral Resources, or IMR, claims business rival and fertilizer maker EuroChem Volga-Kaliy hired New York City law firm Salisbury & Ryan to dig up information on a business rival when a mining deal went bad.

The law firm then hired alleged former Soviet military counterintelligence officer Renit Akhmetshin to conduct an illegal hacking campaign, according to a lawsuit filed by the mining company on Nov. 12 in New York County Supreme Court.

The lawsuit does not list any direct documentation of Salisbury & Ryan or EuroChem asking the alleged former spy to hack IMR, but it claims that the law firm “reached out to Akhmetshin specifically because they understood that Akhmetshin could gain access to private sources of information.”

SNIP

[Jarqui]

1. Google Search of Melnichenko+Trump

because the article states (blockquote not working)
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http://www.courthousenews.com/mining-company-sayslaw-firm-hacked-it/

The suit claims... EuroChem asked Akhmetshin in July 2012 to break into its company servers, then paid him $45,000 for the information he stole. A month and a half later, Akhmetshin allegedly met with his employers in London to drop off a thumb drive with 50 gigabytes of stolen Shaft Sinkers memos, emails and financial information on it.
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But Akhmetshin’s work wasn’t done yet, the lawsuit states, as he then allegedly spent the early months of 2013 contacting journalists to put out negative stories on Shaft Sinkers and its parent company IMR.
Akhmetshin was paid $100,000 for the smear campaign and bragged about it, saying he was paid that much to do “certain things that the law firm could not do,” the mining company says.
The stolen data was still being shopped to others last year, according to IMR. ...
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The lawsuit also claims the potential ringleader of the conspiracy is Andrey Melnichenko, a Russian billionaire who chairs EuroChem. ...

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So Akhmetshin's alleged modus operandi is pretty darn close to what several US intelligence agencies feel happened during the election and he's one of the Russian's named attending the meeting with Donald Trump Jr.

Knowing Akhmetshin's involvement now allows them to try to link his or his people's whereabouts to the IP addresses associated with the hacking. It's one kind of problem when you have to search all over the world. It's another significantly simpler problem to join the IP dots when you have a good idea who the hacker was.

We now have another Trump link to Melnichenko
https://www.google.ca/search?q=Melnichenko+Trump&rlz=1C1VEAD_enCA409CA410&oq=Melnichenko+Trump&aqs=chrome..69i57.2663j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

I suspect this story is going to unravel Trump's position quite quickly now and likely arrive at "beyond reasonable doubt". In fact, they may already have got there and putting it out just may be trying to trigger behavior that buries them deeper.

[pnwmom]

2. Do you mean Akhmetshin?

[Jarqui]

3. Melnichenko is alleged to have hired Akhmetshin to hack and

damage his competitor through leaks to the media (according to the lawsuit)

Akhmetshin is alleged to have attended the collusion meeting with Trump Jr et al.

Melnichenko & Trump have a history (via the google link)

[pnwmom]

4. Thanks! nt