The company under the control of the FSB of the Russian Federation carried out illegal routing of traffic to the occupied Crimea.

Employees of the Security Service of Ukraine, together with the Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, exposed in Kiev the mechanism of illegal routing of Internet traffic to the temporarily annexed peninsula in the interests of Russian special services. This is reported by the press center of the SBU.

Law enforcers documented that the network segment and the telecommunications equipment of the Wnet provider were transferred by the owners to a fictitious commercial structure controlled by the FSB of the Russian Federation, which installed on its equipment its own technical special means. Despite this, the owners of the Ukrainian provider continued to route traffic to the access point in Simferopol.

Through the illegal routing of traffic to the annexed Crimea, the FSB of the Russian Federation planned to access and remove information from the Ukrainian segment of the provider's network. In Ukraine, among the clients of LLC "Double-No Ukraine" (Wnet) is, in particular, government agencies, international organizations, major banking institutions.

SBU staff also found that due to traffic received from the Ukrainian provider through the backbone, Internet access services were received by the FSB of the Russian Federation in the Crimea, Voentelecom of the Russian Federation and pseudo-public communication enterprises.

During the search at the office of the provider, the special services employees seized telecommunications equipment and documentation that confirm the illegal routing of traffic to the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and control over its spread by the FSB of the Russian Federation. Law enforcers also found that, at the direction of Russian curators, the company's management did not block users from accessing Russian Internet resources and services that fall under the sanctions.

Pre-trial investigation is conducted in the framework of open criminal proceedings. 3 items. 110-2 of the Criminal Code (financing activities committed for the purpose of forcibly changing or overthrowing the constitutional order or seizing state power, changing the boundaries of the territory or state border of Ukraine).