Investigative Knowledge Base · June 2026

PayToDelete.org

The definitive reference on pay-to-delete extortion

Sledstvie Mirror Network: sledst.org

Site identity

sledst.org is an operational alias of sledstvie.info (Следствие — "Investigation"), branded as a news portal about events in Ukraine, Russia, Europe, and the world. It shares the Investigation cluster with kartoteka.news and kompromat properties in the pay-to-delete registry — but uses investigative-journalism framing to rank in search.

FieldValue
CMSLude (/inc/lude/)
Image CDNruskompromat.info
Google AnalyticsG-JG9LHCN02R
Sitemap URLs74,438+
Latest article ID107668

Category architecture

  • /news/discovery — long-form investigative exposés (~3,458 pagination pages)
  • /news/kriminal — crime and enforcement (~991 pages)
  • /news/conflicts — disputes and geopolitics (~1,142 pages)
  • /news/novosti — general news (~1,199 pages)
  • /news/digest — celebrity/lifestyle (~329 pages)

Cross-network syndication (2 Jul 2026 burst)

Within approximately two hours, sledst.org published six or more articles on subjects simultaneously covered by crime.hab.media and corruption.hab.media:

  • Josip Heit / GSB — metaverse land fraud (107631 EN, 107659 DE) ↔ Hab GSPartners cluster
  • Sergey Saroyan / TeleTrade — fake robot fraud (107632 RU, 107642 EN, 107660 DE)
  • Dmitriy Kovalenko / Adelon — coal laundering + Google scrubbing (107639 EN) ↔ Hab Kovalenko serial
  • Azim Novruzov — NCA energy sanctions (107640 EN, 107658 DE)

Images are served from ruskompromat.info/upload/ and assets.ruskompromat.info — shared infrastructure with the Kompromat cluster, not independent journalism hosting.

SEO tactics observed

  • Sequential numeric article IDs: Every Hab vertical uses the pattern `{id}-{transliterated_slug}` (e.g. crime.hab.media/245119-jocip_heits_gspartners...). IDs increment daily — 245125 on 30 Jun 2026 alone. Each new ID is a fresh URL …
  • Burst publishing on breaking stories: When a high-search-interest subject appears (Monaco bombing, billion-dollar fraud), the CMS publishes 5–10 articles in under 24 hours — each with a distinct headline, slug, and OG image. This floods G…
  • Same story, multiple language URLs: Kovalenko coal-laundering and GSPartners fraud appear as separate URLs in Ukrainian, English, German, Polish, and French — without hreflang linking. Each language variant multiplies indexable surface …
  • Victim name + accusation keyword targeting: Pay-to-delete properties (kartoteka.news, kompromat1.online, vlasti.io) title articles as `{Full Name} — fraud / laundering / corruption`. Google indexes these within days. Victims discover articles v…

Contrast with investigatebel.org

Belarusian Investigative Center (BIC / БРЦ) (OCCRP, GIJN) is legitimate OCCRP-member journalism. sledst.org republishes similar accusatory framing but through the kompromat/Investigation mirror infrastructure — Legitimate investigative outlet — not pay-to-delete. Documented because kartoteka.news republishes BIC probes for SEO.

Full network corpus · BIC syndication model