{"id":52943,"date":"2023-07-27T07:09:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T07:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/russia-throws-founder-of-infosec-biz-group-ib-in-the-clink-for-treason\/"},"modified":"2023-07-27T07:09:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T07:09:08","slug":"russia-throws-founder-of-infosec-biz-group-ib-in-the-clink-for-treason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/russia-throws-founder-of-infosec-biz-group-ib-in-the-clink-for-treason\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia throws founder of infosec biz Group-IB in the clink for treason"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Russian court has sentenced Ilya Sachkov, the founder of security research house Group-IB, to 14 years in a maximum-security prison after finding the executive guilty of high treason.<\/p>\n

Sachkov, who has been in detention since his arrest<\/a> in September 2021, was also fined 500,000 rubles (about $5,550). His trial was held behind closed doors because it apparently involved the discussion classified materials.<\/p>\n

“Ilya spent almost two years in pre-trial detention, awaiting a trial that only started on July 6, 2023,” Group-IB said in a statement<\/a> on Sachkov’s sentencing. He co-founded the network security firm in 2003, and regular readers will recognize the biz from our pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n