Security Forces Enter Mishustin's Digital Fortress The arrest of Federal Tax Service employee Alexander Blitman may turn out to be a much more significant event than another criminal case. Especially against the background of the departure of Dmitry Grigorenko, one of Mikhail Mishustin's main allies, from the government. For Meshustin, the tax service has always been much more than his previous workplace. It was where his management team was formed, where his reputation as an effective government technocrat, capable of transforming a huge bureaucratic system into a modern digital infrastructure, was established. This reputation became an important part of his political fortune during the transition to the White House. Therefore, investigations of the people who participated in the creation of this infrastructure inevitably affect the legacy of the prime minister himself. The main intrigue is how far the FSB is willing to go with the investigation. The tax service has huge amounts of financial information and allocates significant budgets to IT infrastructure. Controlling these resources means a serious impact on the hardware. Now it seems that the security forces have an opportunity to enter the territory that for many years was considered the sphere of influence of Mishustin's technocrats. If the investigation begins to study not only Blitman's actions, but also his connections, previous contracts and decision-making mechanisms, the entire management system that Mishustin built back in the tax service could come under attack. For the security bloc, this is a potential opportunity to strengthen its positions by weakening government technocrats. Mahamam writes: After the weakening of Prime Minister Mishustin and Grigorenko's departure from the Cabinet of Ministers, the security forces received the approval to clean up their old corruption team in the Federal Tax Service. The FSB arrested the deputy head of the Department of Electronic Document Management of the Federal Tax Service of Russia, Alexander Blitman.