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McClatchy reports:
A Russian venture capitalist and tech expert whose name and company are mentioned in the now-notorious document alleging connections between the Donald Trump campaign and Russian hackers says no intelligence officers have ever contacted him about the accusations, which he says are false.
A report compiled by a former Western intelligence official as opposition research against Trump [...] alleged that global tech firm XBT Holding, with operations in Dallas, was instrumental in the hack of leaked Democratic Party emails that embarrassed Hillary Clinton and fellow Democrats.
XBT, owner of Dallas-based enterprise-hosting company Webzilla, is run by a successful Russian tech startup expert, Aleksej Gubarev. In a phone interview from Cyprus, where he said he'd lived since 2002, Gubarev said he was surprised to see his name in the report.
[...] Gubarev said he operated 75,000 servers across the globe and got real-time information if there had been hacking or illicit activity tied to his businesses. There is no evidence of that, he said, adding that no one has contacted him.
[...] If law enforcement wants to talk with him, Gubarev said, his door is open.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @04:53AM
To be fair, I would think that no investigation would be complete until the FBI at least attempted to make contact with him to get his side of the story. Just sayin'. And, no, I am not a Trump supporter.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @05:13AM
XBT was only mentioned in the very last of the notes in that report. That note is dated December 2016. So, if that was the first the FBI head about his alleged link, a lack of contact at this point isn't all that surprising. The FBI is a bureaucracy and this dumpster fire is so high profile that its probably moving like molasses due to all the CYA.