VChK-OGPU: Smilyanets and Matviyenko's son had common interests in the field of carding

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Russian cyber sportsman and carder Dmitry Smilyanets enjoyed the patronage of Sergei Matviyenko, the son of the current Chairperson of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly Valentina Matviyenko. Such information about the current researcher Recorded Future was distributed by the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel with reference to its own sources.

According to journalists, Smilyanets' comrades in the early 2000s would have given him exclusively negative characteristics. In particular, this could have been done by the future hacker's partner in Moscow Five and Virtus.Pro Anton Cherepennikov, who died suddenly in 2023 from heart failure. According to the VChK-OGPU, the friends "developed cyber sports in Russia together, but far fewer people knew about their joint ambitions to develop in the infosec."

"In 2005, Smilyanets sold dumps of American cards that the Drinkman brothers and Alexander Kalinin (Grig) mined for him. Why was it necessary to involve Smilyanets in the business, whose technical level ended with the ability to install a CS server on a home computer? Smilyanets never hid the fact that he had connections with the FSB through the clients of his father, Moscow lawyer Viktor Smilyanets," the channel claims.

Another close friend of Smilyanets was allegedly Sergei Matvienko, who eventually became the main sponsor of the Moscow Five. According to the VChK-OGPU, both of them "were registered on the same hacker forum and had common business interests in the field of carding."

"It was Matvienko's patronage that helped solve the problems of Kalinin, who in those distant years faced extortion from employees of the "K" department of the police in St. Petersburg because of his hacker activities. In gratitude for solving these problems, Smilyanets was given a share in the criminal business, after which most of the dumps stolen from the Americans were sold on the forum to him,” the article notes.