Interesting....
Meanwhile, searches on Tuesday reportedly resulted in the discovery of $12 million at Mikhailov?s private residence.
But nothing is simple in this case, connected as it is to the shadowland of hackers and special services cooperating with some Russian officials behind the backs of other Russian officials.
According to a 2015 report by Daniil Turovsky for the Meduza website that was published by The Guardian,
when Putin was carving Crimea out of Ukraine in 2014 the Humpty Dumpty hackers had gotten hold of documents exposing the Russian government?s plans for ?grassroots? demonstrations in Moscow to support the annexation.Humpty Dumpty also exposed some of the chicanery behind Crimea?s referendum setting the stage for its return to Russia, and it allegedly hacked into the emails of Igor Strelkov, one of the early leaders of the secessionist movement in eastern Ukraine.
The Downfall of a Top Russian Cyber Spy - The Daily Beast