- The positions of the CEO of Windscribe Yegor Sak in Greece have been removed after a two -year legal battle
- The charges were related to alleged Internet crimes by an unknown user in June 2023
- Sak was accused of “illegal access to electronic data”
Windscribe has won a historical case in Greece after a two -year legal battle, in a victory for VPN without registration.
The co -founder and CEO of Windscribe, Yegor Sak, was accused in relation to an alleged Internet crime perpetrated by an unknown user in June 2023. On April 11, 2025, a court in Athens decided to dismiss the case against Sak for lack of evidence of any crime.
Our legal battle is over. A few years ago, some idiot used our VPN to do idiots. Greece then decided to load the CEO of Windscript @yegor for the crimes because it was his name on the invoice of the VPN server. There were no records of anything. Dismissed case. https://t.co/ipw0rkwgnrApril 25, 2025
According to the official legal document shared by Windscribe with Techradar, Sak was accused of “illegal access to electronic data” to send email emails.
An anonymous user allegedly used a Windscribe server in Finland to violate a website in Greece and launch the attacks.
According to Sak, however, the Greek authorities did not issue any citation to the VPN company, as required by the standard. Instead, they directly accused Sak, the head of the Finland Data Center account involved in criminal activity.
“This establishes a worrying precedent for anyone who has servers that can be used by others,” Sak said. “If confirmed, it could have criminalized the property of the infrastructure for the actions taken by anonymous users.”
Not just a Windscribe victory
The case against Windscribe was dismissed due to lack of evidence that the VPN company or Sak himself had committed any irregularity. However, this is not just a victory for Windscribe.
“It wasn’t just about me,” Sak said. “It was about drawing a hard line around the role of privacy infrastructure suppliers. As we do not register the user’s activity, we cannot deliver what we do not have.”
Some say that VPNs should be prohibited because some people use them badly, but that is a rather wrong approach
Yegor Sak, Windscribe
A NO-Log VPN is a guarantee that the supplier never stores or tracks user activities and any other data that can identify them. This means that suppliers cannot share any information with the application of the law when asked, since these details simply do not exist.
Some companies before Windscribe have demonstrated the legitimacy of this characteristic in real life over the years. For example, Mullvad did it in 2023 after being beaten by a non -conclusive police raid. Private Internet access (PIA) also demonstrated its non-log claims twice in court.
The main objective of the Virtual Private Network Software (VPN) is to keep anonymous people when they navigate the web. This is the reason why EU experts have considered these services a “key challenge” for police work, and legislators currently consider whether the data withholding requirements must be changed.
Sak, however, now reiterates Windscribe with the privacy and transparency of users. He said: “Some say that VPNs should be prohibited because some people use them badly, but that is a rather wrong approach. According to that logic, we must also ban hammers and cars.”
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