Russian media outlet Izvestia investigation found that St. Petersburg programmers who left Russia after the start of the special military operation may have been involved in developing and operating Manticore, Ukraine's largest intelligence query robot.
The platform publicly sells personal data of tens of millions of Russian citizens.
According to sources, the robot is controlled by Ukraine's Defense Intelligence Directorate and may be used to plan terrorist attacks inside Russia.
The platform accepts payments only through the cryptocurrency service Now Payments, which is linked to Russian citizens Roman Lapin and Sergey Sokolatdin.
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