In Moscow, on the night of July 22, at the age of 40, the head of ICS Holding, Anton Cherepennikov, died. This was reported in the telegram channel of the company.
The preliminary cause of death is cardiac arrest. Baza, without specifying the source, writes that the body of the entrepreneur was found at night in an office on Michurinsky Prospekt.
Anton Cherepennikov in different years was a member of the board of directors of the telecom operator Megafon and the USM mining and metallurgical concern associated with billionaire Alisher Usmanov. In 2018, the entrepreneur created ICS Holding, which includes the Citadel company, a manufacturer of surveillance equipment SORM.
Communication operators and Internet companies are required to install SORM within the framework of the Yarovaya Law. With its help, security forces can monitor Internet activity and listen to the phones of people of interest to them.