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The founder of one of Russia’s largest cybersecurity companies has been arrested on suspicion of state treason and will be held in a notorious prison run by the security services for the next two months, a Moscow court said on Wednesday.
The charges against Ilya Sachkov, founder of Group-IB, are classified and details of them were not immediately clear. State-run news agency Tass cited an anonymous source who said Sachkov denied passing on secret information to foreign intelligence services.
Group-IB, which specializes in preventing cybercrime and ransomware, confirmed that law enforcement raided its officers yesterday but said it did not know the reason for Sachkov’s arrest.
“Group-IB’s team is confident in the innocence of the company’s CEO and his business integrity,” the company said in a statement.
Dmitry Volkov, Group-IB’s cofounder, will assume Sachkov’s leadership responsibilities, it added.
RIA Novosti, another state newswire, reported that investigators searched Group-IB’s office in St Petersburg and other unspecified premises on Wednesday.
The company, which is headquartered in Singapore, is an official partner of Interpol and Europol and has hosted senior international law enforcement officials at its conferences in Moscow. Its private sector clients include BP, Microsoft, DHL, and several major Russian state-owned companies.
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