DDoS-Guard, the company that provided services to VanwaTech until earlier this week, was registered under a limited partnership, 
a financial structure in Scotland that allows non-residents to create companies with little scrutiny, on 24 November 2017 by 
Aleksei Likhachev and Evgeniy Marchenko – two Russian businessmen who remain owners of the company. The partnership under which 
DDoS-Guard is registered is called Cognitive Cloud and is listed at an address in Edinburgh’s Forth Street.
