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I request an investigation on a group of accounts for violation of WP:PAID, WP:SOCK, WP:NOP policies.

Preface: on January 17 I initiated a checkuser in ru-wiki on Veilderst, Ksenia34, and Zergeist2 (who is blocked for being a member of Prigozhin’s botnet. Also see 1) my request for checkuser of 12 editors 2) related investigation by Meduza.

I quote that application: ''I suppose that Veilderst is connected to Zergeist2 via mutual affiliation to ChronoPay founder Pavel Vrublevsky, supposedly an employer of Zergeist2 (His real name is Sergey Nesterovich and hi is CTO Choronopay). In its turn, Veilderst and Ksenia34 edited the identical unpopular articles on ‘ERIELL Group’, ‘Stoloto’ and Mikhailov case’ (the latter concerning Vrublevsky). Ksenia34 also created an article on Dmitry Artimovich, the co-owner of ‘ChronoPay’, thus also connected to Vrublevsky. Zergeist2 created an article on Federal Security Service Data Security Centre, one of the few articles, referring to the ‘Mikhailov case’.''

Unfortunately, in ru-wiki the investigation found no connection between Ksenia34 and Zergeist2 accounts. Veilderst last edit was too old to perform a check.

However, the latest en-wiki edits by Ksenia34 and Veilderst are quite recent, so I request an investigation on these three users: Ksenia34, Zergeist2, and Veilderst. In addition, I suggest including user Derehosrescalo, an editor with an undeclared payed contribution in both ru- and en-wiki. This user was included into current claim for being blocked per WP:NOP in ru-wiki as the result of individual investigation, that I’ve initiated on January 26. The investigation found that 100 % of his edits used proxy. Veilderst and Derehosrescalo seem connected because they have a suspicious mutual contribution to The Second Severomuysky Tunnel article (English article created by Veilderst and Второй Северомуйский тоннель actively edited by Derehosrescalo in ru-wiki). This is an unpopular article where mutual contribution can not be a simple coincidence. Ksenia34 and Derehosrescalo also both made edits in Larisa Sinelshchikova and Konstantin Ernst articles (they are former spouses). Lastly, I suggest checking Fl2871 on possible connection to Derehosrescalo: Fl2871 made a significant contribution to the articles Group-IB and Ilya Sachkov, which were the last edited by Derehosrescalo in ru-wiki before his block. Gruznov (talk) 18:17, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

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 * Case moved from Zergeist2 to Veilderst —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 03:34, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Whatever happens here will have to happen based on behavioral evidence, unless there's some deep technical stuff I'm missing. I found one thingy for Veilderst, but nothing that we can say this is abusive, but that's it--and comparisons with Derehosrescalo, for instance, cannot be made given that their edits are too old. Drmies (talk) 01:38, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
 * These accounts haven't edited for at least a couple weeks and the evidence here isn't super strong. If suspected socking continues in the future, please file another case. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:01, 16 April 2020 (UTC)