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> (which he used, for example, with that shady story when his son was kidnapped).

Read the first-person account by Igor Ashmanov who witnessed the whole incident. [1] Kaspersky's son was found not by FSB, he was found by the unit of Moscow police that was specifically created to deal with kidnappings, with cases like that one. If the story with the kidnapping proves anything, it proves the opposite, that he actually had NO any serious FSB connection.

[1] https://roem.ru/18-10-2017/261503/kaspersky-poprosil-dokazat... and following comments



> Igor Ashmanov

Yeah, a really good and unbiased source you got there.




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