Evil Corp: 6. Fatherland

Cyber Hack

BBC

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Investigators hunting for Maksim Yakubets, allege he is working with the FSB – Russia’s security agency. They say the Evil Corp gang has stolen more than $100m from at least 300 victim organisations in 43 countries - but who is the powerful man in Moscow said to be protecting Maksim, their alleged leader? We follow his family’s journey from a humble sausage factory in Ukraine to the Russian high-life – and the frontier of cybercrime. Hosted by Joe Tidy, the BBC’s cyber correspondent – one of the few Western journalists to have met an alleged member of Evil Corp – and the BBC’s Sarah Rainsford, who spent more than two decades reporting from Moscow.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts.
0:06.5	The party is raging.
0:09.8	Drinks flowing, laughter echoing.
0:12.8	But this isn't your standard night out.
0:17.0	It's all happening inside prison.
0:20.2	Join me, Amber Hack, for a shocking case of forbidden love,
0:25.0	hidden corruption and a million pound drug boss. You don't think it can happen to you, but it does.
0:31.0	Gangster presents sex, drugs and cell block parties. Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:37.8	Before we begin, our special extended sixth and final episode of Cyberhack Evil Corps,
0:43.2	we have some exciting news.
0:45.1	Cyberhack will return in 26 with a brand new season.
0:50.1	Yes, season four.
0:51.6	Keep listening at the end of this episode for a first chance to hear our Season 4 trailer.
0:59.5	He's rifling through his PDF about Evil Corps.
1:02.6	Yeah, my PDF of Evil Corps.
1:06.1	Peering into his notes, the head of Cyber Intelligence at the UK National Crime Agency, the country's
1:12.6	top force against serious and organised crime. In his 15-year career, one name keeps popping
1:19.3	up. What is it about Evil Corps that has been such a mission for the NCN for you?
1:26.3	They have been a really consistent and persistent threat.
1:30.0	This is Will Lyne.
1:31.8	They've always been on our radar because they cause such harm to victims across the UK and around the world.
1:38.4	And at the centre of it all, the man Lyne says runs evil core.
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