Man who says he was a Russian 'troll' arrested after going public - ABC News

[Leghorn21]

Russian police have reportedly arrested a man who has claimed to be a worker at a so-called troll factory in St. Petersburg, Russia, hours after he gave interviews to foreign journalists and lifted the lid on a secretive organization the U.S. Department of Justice last week accused of trying to undermine the 2016 presidential election.

The Justice Department Friday indicted 13 Russians it accused of running a campaign through the alleged trolling operation to undermine the U.S. election, using social media posts and fake news websites. The indictment named the company behind the alleged operation as the Internet Research Agency.

Since the indictment, Marat Mindiyarov, a 43-year-old former teacher who said he worked for the operation from 2014 to early 2015, has been giving interviews to multiple foreign news outlets, including The Associated Press and The Washington Post, describing its inner workings.
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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Russian police? Oh for FUCK SAKE

He was arrested NOT to assist our law enforcement, THAT much is certain.

[Leghorn21]

2. I was nervous for this guy, speaking so freely...maybe this report is incorrect

...but I’m afraid it isn’t -

[Leghorn21]

3. My bad, Eliot - he has been released!!

“He was then detained Sunday by police who accused him and a friend of making a false report about a bomb near his village outside St. Petersburg, he told The Moscow Times.

Mindiyarov has since been released, Russian radio station Echo of Moscow reported.”

Whewww, may he remain so -