The Washington Post is running a three part article on Russian criminals Vasiliy Gorshkov and Alexey Ivanov. Relatives and friends say he had wanted to build a dot-com. Goshkov, then 24, didn’t have the cash to keep paying his four programmers. But one of those programmers, 19-year-old Alexey Isokov, said he knew how to raise the protection money, according to lawyers familiar with the conversation. Gsokov could offer a protection service of his own to online businesses.”]
Source: https://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2003/05/washington-post-is-running-three-part.html