On or around 10 March 2022, Pavel Vrublevsky, founder of the Russian payment technology firm ChronoPay, was arrested in Moscow on fraud charges. Russian law enforcement alleges that Vrublevsky operated several fraudulent SMS-based payment schemes and facilitated money laundering for Hydra, the largest Russian darknet market. However, according to KrebsOnSecurity, Vrublevsky may have been arrested because he publicly documented the links between Russia’s state security services and the cybercriminal underground.