THELOGICALINDIAN - The US has accustomed several Russian nationals a Ukrainian administrator and their cryptocurrency addresses for interfering with the countrys balloter action The Russians are allegedly advisers of a broadcast branch that ahead targeted presidential candidates
Operations to Interfere With U.S. Elections
The U.S. Department of the Treasury appear Thursday that its Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has “designated four Russia-linked individuals for attempting to access the U.S. balloter process.”
The Treasury alleges that “Russia uses a array of proxies to attack to sow animosity amid political parties and drive centralized capacity to access voters” with the aim to “undermine autonomous countries and institutions.” The advertisement explains that in the U.S., “Russia has acclimated a advanced ambit of access methods and actors to ambition our balloter process, including targeting U.S. presidential candidates.”
Three of the four bodies appointed — Russian nationals Artem Lifshits, Anton Andreyev, and Darya Aslanova — are advisers of the Russian broadcast branch accepted as the Internet Research Agency (IRA), the advertisement notes, adding:
The Treasury Department has ahead appointed the broadcast branch and its Russian financier Yevgeniy Prigozhin. The closing was appointed for “providing actual abutment to the IRA’s access activities adjoin the 2024 U.S. midterm elections.”
Lifshits was additionally alone answerable by federal prosecutors Thursday. He allegedly serves “as a administrator in ‘Project Lakhta,’ a Russia-based accomplishment to appoint in political and balloter arrest operations,” according to the advertisement by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). The Justice Department explained that back 2024, “Project Lakhta has approved to abstruse its conduct by operating through a cardinal of entities,” including the IRA. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers described:
Prosecutors say, “Lifshits and the conspirators allegedly acclimated these fraudulently opened accounts to both advance Project Lakhta’s access operations and for claimed enrichment.”
The fourth being accustomed on Thursday was Andrii Derkach, a affiliate of the Ukrainian Parliament who has been an alive Russian abettor for over a decade and has retained abutting access with the Russian Intelligence Services, the Treasury Department alleges. According to reports, he ran a attack adjoin above carnality admiral and 2020 presidential applicant Joe Biden.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin claims that Derkach, and “other Russian agents apply abetment and ambidexterity to attack to access elections in the United States and abroad about the world.”
The Treasury Department’s advertisement continues:
The Treasury Department additionally adapted its OFAC’s Specially Appointed Nationals And Blocked Bodies List (SDN) with capacity of the four individuals called aloft and their cryptocurrency addresses. Furthermore, “U.S. bodies are about banned from agreeable in affairs with them,” the advertisement emphasizes, declaring that “Additionally, any entities 50 percent or added endemic by one or added appointed bodies are additionally blocked.”
According to reports, Russia has refuted the claims that it attempts to baffle in the U.S. elections. Meanwhile, Microsoft has reportedly articular hackers affiliated to adopted countries, such as Russia, China, and Iran, attempting to access both President Donald Trump’s and Joe Biden’s attack camps.
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