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Report: Wikileaks' Syria Docs Exclude Email On $2B Transfer To Russian Bank

posted by janrinok on Sunday September 11 2016, @02:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the here,-have-some-money dept.

DeathMonkey writes:

A trove of hacked emails published by WikiLeaks in 2012 excludes records of a €2 billion transaction between the Syrian regime and a government-owned Russian bank, according to leaked U.S. court documents obtained by the Daily Dot.

The court records, placed under seal by a Manhattan federal court and obtained by the Daily Dot through an anonymous source, show in detail how a group of hacktivists breached the Syrian government's networks on the eve of the country's civil war and extracted emails about major bank transactions the Syrian regime was hurriedly making amid a host of economic sanctions. In the spring of 2012, most of the emails found their way into a WikiLeaks database.

But one set of emails in particular didn't make it into the cache of documents published by WikiLeaks in July 2012 as "The Syria Files," despite the fact that the hackers themselves were ecstatic at their discovery. The correspondence, which WikiLeaks has denied withholding, describes "more than" €2 billion ($2.4 billion, at current exchange rates) moving from the Central Bank of Syria to Russia's VTB Bank.

http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/wikileaks-syria-files-syria-russia-bank-2-billion/

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by ilPapa on Sunday September 11 2016, @05:10AM

    by ilPapa (2366) on Sunday September 11 2016, @05:10AM (#400204) Journal

    "obtained by the Daily Dot through an anonymous source"
    I wonder if the leaker is part of the same organisation trying to smear wikileaks in the leadup to the US election.
    Will be interesting to find out one day if its a legit leak, or completely made up docs.

    Wikileaks: "Always trust our anonymous sources!"

    non-Wikileaks: "Anonymous sources can't be trusted!"

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 11 2016, @04:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 11 2016, @04:14PM (#400309)

    The government usually verifies that the leaks are at least somewhat true after they've been released. With the NSA and DNC email leaks, the government expressed outrage and made statements that seemed to confirm the content was genuine. Has a similar thing happened here?