{"id":63125,"date":"2017-01-12T20:14:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T00:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=63125"},"modified":"2017-01-12T20:15:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T00:15:56","slug":"63125","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=63125","title":{"rendered":"Russian IT Expert To Sue Brit Over False Accusations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018It\u2019s fake news\u2019: Russian IT expert responds to unverified report alleging ties to Trump &#038; Kremlin<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/373511-russia-company-it-trump\/video\/\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n\u00a9 imago stock&#038;people \/ www.globallookpress.com<\/p>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<p>Tech expert Aleksey Gubarev, who alongside his IT company, has been listed in a report alleging close ties between Donald Trump and Russia, told RT that he was never contacted by any intelligence service on the matter and that the report is \u201cfake news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Text of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"tag\">report<\/a>\u00a0alleging cooperation between Donald Trump\u2019s camp and Russian hackers, and also claiming that Moscow has been blackmailing the US president-elect for past sex adventures, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/kenbensinger\/these-reports-allege-trump-has-deep-ties-to-russia?utm_term=.hsJBBaGNrB#.mgwBBjm1MB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"tag\">published<\/a>\u00a0on Buzzfeed website Tuesday. However, the allegations, reportedly compiled by a former UK intelligence agent Christopher Steel are unverified and also contain mistakes (like misspelling Russia\u2019s Alfa Bank as \u2018Alpha\u2019 Bank).<\/p>\n<p>Among others, the paper in question included Gubarev\u2019s name and his global tech Holding XBT, which also runs a Dallas operated company Webzilla. It is alleged in the report that XBT was linked to the recent hacking scandal with the US Democratic Party and a following leak of the emails from its institutions and members.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe were shocked to find our names there,\u201d<\/em> Gubarev told RT, saying he had <em>\u201cnever met\u201d<\/em> anyone listed in the report. <em>\u201cNobody from the intelligence agency contacted me about this story&#8230; to verify this information,\u201d<\/em> he said. Neither did any journalists reach out to him, Gubarev said.<\/p>\n<p>The published report is <em>\u201cfake news,\u201d<\/em> Gubarev said. <em>&#8220;I still do not understand why our names [are] there and we do not understand a reason of this report in general,&#8221;<\/em> he told RT.<\/p>\n<p>The IT expert also noted that he is not <em>\u201cliving in Russia for already 15 years.\u201d<\/em> Yet, the XBT chief said he and his company <em>\u201care open for any investigation\u201d<\/em> and that they have <em>\u201cnothing to hide.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Following the publication of the report on Buzzfeed, its author has been apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/christopher-steele-ex-british-intelligence-officer-said-to-have-prepared-dossier-on-trump-1484162553\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"tag\">identified<\/a>, turning out to be a British ex-intelligence member, Christopher Steele. He is one of two directors at Orbis Business Intelligence Ltd, a private security-and-investigations company.<\/p>\n<p>Gubarev told RT he will now take legal action against Steele over false claims. <em>&#8220;We are 100 percent filing a lawsuit against Christopher Steele who created this report and his company in the United Kingdom. We are already working on that.&#8221;<\/em> The XBT chief said that a <em>\u201ccompetitor\u201d<\/em> might be behind the allegations against his company, while <em>\u201canother option\u201d<\/em> would be his professional activity.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Recently I was giving some comments to Bloomberg,\u201d<\/em> Gubarev said in the interview with RT. The IT expert stated to Bloomberg that there was <em>&#8220;no connection between Donald Trump servers and Alfa Bank servers.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a technical analysis from our site which we sent to Bloomberg.&#8221; It was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/cover_story\/2016\/10\/was_a_server_registered_to_the_trump_organization_communicating_with_russia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"tag\">reported<\/a>\u00a0in November that a server owned by Alfa Bank (listed in paper published on Buzzfeed), allegedly had communications with a server hosting the Trump Organization domain address. Yet there has been no serious evidence backing the claim.<\/p>\n<p>During a press conference on Wednesday, Donald Trump called BuzzFeed a <em>\u201cfailing pile of garbage\u201d<\/em> and also refused to answer a question by a CNN reporter (the outlet also published parts of the report). The information in the report was in fact <em>\u201cfalse and fake and never happened,\u201d<\/em> Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/373511-russia-company-it-trump\/\">http:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/373511-russia-company-it-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018It\u2019s fake news\u2019: Russian IT expert responds to unverified report alleging ties to Trump &#038; Kremlin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}