NOKIA

The company is a great ally of the Vladimir Putin regime

There is an old proverb that says: "Money has no smell", and it is very often used when its provenance is not always the clearest, or obtained in a "clean" way. According to what is now being revealed by the New York Times, Nokia has provided Russia with surveillance systems for years that were used by the local government to spy on the opposition to Vladimir Putin.

These revelations come a few weeks after Nokia announced that it will no longer sell products to Russia after it invaded Ukraine.

Nokia would thus have participated extensively in the installation of SORM, a mass surveillance system of the population controlled entirely by the FSB (the main Russian intelligence service). Posts, mobile calls, everything is sifted through the “eye of Moscow”. But there is even worse: SORM would have made it possible to intercept phone calls from an opponent of Putin… who was later assassinated.

Nokia engineers were also asked to link SORM with operator MTS's network, which seems to mean that the Finnish company knew very well what it was collaborating with.

After Ericsson's feud with the Islamic State comes these sinister new revelations. The truth is that in the face of the relentless documents published by the New York Times, the Finnish company did not deny the facts of which it is accused, in addition to the facts of an active collaboration, limiting itself to remembering its obligation to comply with the law in force in Russia. In that context, the company's statement condemning the war in Ukraine suddenly seems a little hypocritical.

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