Notice of seizure
This site has been seized
This site ran on infrastructure operated by John Mark Dougan. It has been accessed and documented, and the record is available to law enforcement on lawful request.
- Seized
- The server infrastructure behind this domain and everything on it: chat logs, private messages, payment records and other communications.
- Operator
- John Mark Dougan, a dual U.S. and Russian citizen in Moscow. A former Palm Beach County deputy sheriff, he fled to Russia in 2016 and is wanted in Florida on 21 felony charges of extortion and wiretapping.
- Sanctions
- European Union (15 December 2025, all 27 member states), Ukraine (30 January 2026) and Monaco — for running the CopyCop network of fake news sites and supporting Storm-1516.
- Be aware
- Paying, hosting, funding or otherwise providing resources to a sanctioned person is prohibited under EU sanctions and a criminal offence in the member states. Knowingly helping a person evade an outstanding felony warrant can itself be a crime.
This notice is not a court order and is not issued by any government. The Office does not read private messages. Where it does, they were not private. Where they were private, they are not anymore.