https://apnews.com/a3144f4ef5ab4588af7aba789e9892ed
By RAPHAEL SATTER
The Associated Press
April 17, 2019
LONDON (AP) -- Keir Giles’ first thought was that the man’s cheap-looking suit
didn’t seem right for a private equity executive. The man seated in front of
him at the London hotel claimed to live in Hong Kong, but didn’t seem overly
familiar with the city. Then there was the awkward conversation, which kept
returning to one topic in particular: the Russian antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab.
He also asked Giles to repeat himself or speak louder so persistently that
Giles said he began wondering “whether I should be speaking into his tie or his
briefcase or wherever the microphone was.”
“He was drilling down hard on whether there had been any ulterior motives
behind negative media commentary on Kaspersky,” said Giles, a Russia specialist
with London’s Chatham House thinktank who often has urged caution about
Kaspersky’s alleged Kremlin connections. “The angle he wanted to push was that
individuals — like me — who had been quoted in the media had been induced by or
motivated to do so by Kaspersky’s competitors.”
The Associated Press has learned that the mysterious man, who said his name was
Lucas Lambert, spent several months last year investigating critics of
Kaspersky Lab, organizing at least four meetings with cybersecurity experts in
London and New York.
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