US law enforcement agencies have received a list of employees of the so-called “Lakhta” project, which they suspect of meddling in the American elections, RIA Novosti reports, citing court documents.
This information is contained in an affidavit from US Secret Service Special Agent Heather Turner. “Law enforcement agencies have found a list of the Lakhta project employees from January to September 2017, in which the project members are mentioned by department and position,” the special agent said in his testimony.
On September 10, the United States imposed sanctions on three Russians and a Ukrainian due to interference in American elections and cyber attacks. The black list includes Russian citizens Anton Andreev, Daria Aslanova and Artem Lifshits, who are allegedly connected with the Internet Research Agency, which manipulated the elections. The Americans attribute it to businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin.
In April 2019, US Special Attorney Robert Mueller published a report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, which was won by Donald Trump. It says that Moscow did interfere in the American electoral process, but suspicions about the connection between the Russian side and Trump could not be confirmed. Later, a federal court in Washington ruled that the connection of the “troll factory” with the Kremlin was also not proven.
