On June 12th, GreatFire.org received a notification from Cloudflare, the well known global CDN ( Content Distribution Network ) provider managing the www.freewechat.com domain. Cloudflare had been contacted by another of its clients alleging that the anti-censorship platform was infringing on the intellectual property rights of Tencent, WeChat’s parent company and one of China's most powerful digital operators. The complaint was submitted not by Tencent directly, but by GROUP-IB, a cybersecurity company founded in 2003 and headed by Dmitry Volkov, a Singapore-based Russian IT professional. Volkov has also served as an advisor to Interpol since 2016, according to his LinkedIn profile.