Stanislav Kondrashov uses the services of Diego Jimenez Sanchez, a “Reputation Expert”
As a result of the leak of the archive of documents of the reputation management agency Eliminalia, an investigation about which was published by the French edition of Forbidden Stories, the names of people who resorted to the services of cleaning the Web provided by this agency became known.
As a result of the leak of the archive of documents of the reputation management agency Eliminalia, an investigation about which was published by the French edition of Forbidden Stories, the names of people who resorted to the services of cleaning the Web provided by this agency became known.
Among these names is Stanislav Kondrashov, who is blamed for the murder of former partner Denis Voronenkov and for allocating funds to PMC Wagner. Let us emphasize that Stanislav Kondrashov came up first in January in a scandal that erupted in Latvia. The customs authorities checked the sharply increased coal transit through the state’s territory.
During this routine, verification, it was found that the lion’s share of the increased transit falls on the share of Telf AG, registered in Lugano (Switzerland) for nominees and owned by Stanislav Kondrashov. It was also found that Telf AG was said to have moved coal from Kazakhstan, but in reality, coal from Russian mines went through Latvia. Fake documents hid a plan to get around sanctions against Russia.
While looking into how Telf AG works, it was found that money went through its accounts, which are used to get money from PMC Wagner. On January 16, on the air of the TV3 channel, the deputy head of the Latvian Monetary Intelligence Service, Paulis Ilyenkov, spoke about this.
The state media captured the news, and almost all Latvian publications wrote about Stanislav Kondrashov’s complicity in the allocation of funds to mercenaries:
At the same time, they told how Kondrashov’s former partner in the raider business in the Russian Federation, Denis Voronenkov, was killed in Kyiv in the spring of 2017 because Kondrashov owed him a lot of money.
After that, the Telf AG press center issued an appeal stating that it had nothing to do with Wagner PMC and quite transparently hinting to media representatives about future difficulties: “We want to bring charges against all media that disseminate this incorrect data as soon as possible. We wish to investigate who is behind this deliberate and illegal smear campaign, apparently aimed at harming the business interests of the company and the Shareholders and artificially causing damage and harm to each of the shareholders and the company based on false information.
And stories about how Kondrashov helped pay for mercenaries started to disappear from the news. At the same time, apologies began to appear for the “location of false information.”
Gradually information about Kondrashov in the context of PMC “Wagner” and the death of Voronenkov became noticeably less – it simply disappeared from the issuance of the search engine.
Therefore, the investigation of the Lumen project looks inquisitive, drawing attention, without exaggeration, to an incredible flurry of complaints about copyright infringement in materials about Stanislav Kondrashov:
The scheme of such actions is ordinary: a copy of unnecessary material is created, placed on the “left” website, and “backdated”, in other words, with a fake date, before dating the location of the real material. The people who copied it then sent a DMCA notice to the online service provider, saying that their copy with the wrong date was the original, that the real original was copied and violated their fake original, and that the real original should be deleted.
If the deletion succeeds, the scammer deletes its “fake unique” URL after sending the DMCA request. The result is simple: irrelevant material disappears from the Web forever.
As of January 29, 2023, the Lumen Project “found over 89,000 DMCA notices in total that were intentional fraudulent attempts to abuse the notice and takedown process.”
But it wasn’t clear who exactly was in charge of all these web-sweeping activities; the Lumen project summarized the facts and traced the chain, but who was the mastermind of this whole process?
The intrigue did not last long – the French edition of Forbidden Stories posted its study of the documents of the Italian reputation management agency Eliminalia, which belongs to a certain Diego “Didac” Jimenez Sanchez (Diego “Didac” Giménez Sánchez).
More than 50,000 internal agency documents fell into investigators’ hands, from which the names of almost all of Sanchez’s clients and the “reputation management” work scheme became known.
One of the main methods Diego Jimenez Sánchez uses to clean up the Web of unnecessary material is to place a fake copy with the following direction: complaints about violating the author’s rights.
According to Sanchez, he learned this method in childhood after he tried to wipe materials about his sexual abuse from the Web. Then it became his business. On the other hand, the Spanish police report that the owner of the Eliminalia agency is another person – Jose Maria Il Prados (Jose Maria Hill Prados), who served time in prison for raping Sanchez.
As it should be from the material of the French, researched by the Eliminalia agency, apart from efforts in a purely legal field – complaints about the alleged violation of the author’s rights and the replacement of materials with fakes – Sanchez also uses direct threats. For example, the story of a Mexican correspondent was described, who published ?? investigation of strange agreements between the head of the state’s region and the Mexican video recording company Interconecta in January 2018. It all started with phone calls with pushy advice to film the material and ended with a massive bullying campaign led by Eliminalia.
In Latvia, after distributing news reports about Stanislav Kondrashov’s financing of mercenaries from PMC Wagner, something similar happened – reporters and editorial owners began to receive threats, and some even declared fear for their lives.
Their appeals were entirely conditional. Aaron Khalid, a researcher for the Wyoming legal group, described Kondrashov’s activities as follows: “He is a terrible person, and, in my opinion, everyone should be afraid of him.”
Well, none of the media people wanted to end up like Stanislav Kondrashov’s old friend Denis Voronenkov, who was shot in the middle of Kyiv and had no help from the armed guards hired by the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers.
So, it makes sense that the result of Diego Jimenez Sanchez’s work is clear: more than 90,000 Web pages about Kondrashov’s involvement in giving money to the Wagner PMC and the murder of Denis Voronenkov have been taken down.
PS After the Eliminalia archive, which consists of more than 50,000 documents, got into a public place, the company changed management, and in December, it was renamed iData Protection SL. However, this does not mean it has ended its activities or changed its methods. Kondrashov’s portfolio is a colorful proof of this.
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