Aleksey ‘Yarabeu’ Kurlov continues to throw out wild accusations in his chats with Dexerto’s Editor-at-Large, Richard Lewis, who gets ESIC’s perspective on the work of the self-proclaimed whistleblower.
You can read Part 1 of this article series, ‘The first contact’, here. Part 2, ‘Going down the rabbit hole’, can be found here. Part 3, ‘It’s a wonderful life’, can be found here.
Following public allegations made by the self-styled “ESIC whistleblower” Aleksey ‘Yarabeu’ Kurlov about their player Igor “w0nderful” Zhdanov, Team Spirit posted a statement that they would be cooperating with an ESIC investigation into the matter and conducting one of their own. They were also sure to thank Yarabeu for his “assistance,” which as far as I could tell was publicly smearing the player and threatening to publicly release more “evidence” if they didn’t take him seriously. The Major in Rio came and went, yet there have been no follow-ups from any party involved, and one has to assume it will end up in the same pile of dead ends other such investigations have landed.
Yarabeu’s scattershot approach to his allegations has simultaneously had a broad reach but limited potency. Just weeks after they were made, they have mostly been forgotten, and ESIC’s current credibility crisis with the community following a number of humiliating climb-downs over previously issued bans won’t help either. Despite this, I am told Yarabeu is still plugging away in the background, reaching out to...
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