It has come to light that just a few weeks before Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested at Bourget airport in Paris, someone published one million hacked files from the Israeli government on the messaging platform.
DDoSecrets was believed to be the culprit, and Telegram banned the group not long after the documents were released. Then, just days after that, Durov was apprehended and now faces trumped-up charges that could land him in the slammer for 20 years.
According to Gab.com CEO Andrew Torba, the hacked documents reveal that the Israeli government sought legal counsel on how to avoid having to comply with registering under the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), a law that requires foreign-backed lobbying campaigns to make themselves known with disclosure.
Israel apparently does not want the American public to readily know that it practically controls Washington…
