The State Security Service of Latvia (SGB) is known about the incident, which was called the attempt on its founder in the Telegram channel of the “Cheka-OGPU”. In the case, nothing indicates that it is connected with the activities of foreign special services, the SGB was reported to the “agency” and “important stories”. “We confirm that the Latvian state security service was informed about this incident. At the same time, the information available to the service does not indicate that the case is related to malicious foreign activities, ”the SGB-HK-OGPU television channel said in a statement on April 7, which in one of the European Union countries from April 2024 would be investigated by the attempt on the founder of the channel. The editors revealed information about this shortly after the channel was removed from the Telegram messenger. According to the authors of the channel, the organizer of the attempt is one of the Russian special services. Also, the Cheka-OGPU said that in August the founder of the channel was hospitalized “with an acute defeat of the body of unknown origin,” he spent two months in the hospital. At the same time, the name of the victim was not called the founder of the channel. The former Rosbalt journalist Alexander Shvryev, who lives in Latvia, is associated with the VChK-OGPU. According to the Russian BBC service, a few months ago, Schverev was allegedly called to the SGB, where he was warned of a possible attempt to attempt by the Russian special services. The VChK-OGPU television channel, which had more than 1.1 million subscribers, disappeared from the Telegram messenger on April 7. The removal of the channel with the fact that in December 2024 the Russian authorities demanded that the Telegram lead to remove the channel. In Roskomnadzor they confirmed that they repeatedly demanded that the messenger be removed from the administration of the messenger. The Telegram press service said that the VCH-OGPU was removed by its owners, possibly as a result of unauthorized access. According to the Russian BBC service, there was no unauthorized access to the channel. The founder of the channel told the Dossier Center that the VChK-OGPU was removed by the messenger by the court by the court decision, and the account, which was registered by the channel, was blocked. In Russia, the VChK-OGPU was declared a “ino-agent”. According to the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, the authors of the project are Alexander Shvarev and Alisher Abdullaev. Both were arrested in absentia in Russia in the case of extortion and slander for billionaire Alisher Usmanov. (Tagstotranslate) News
