- Windscribe CEO Yegor Saks accusations in Greece have been dropped after a two -year legal battle
- The charges were in connection with alleged Internet violations of an unknown user in June 2023
- SAK was accused of “illegal access to electronic data”
Windscribe has won a milestone case in Greece after a two-year legal battle, in a victory for non-log-VPNs.
Windscribe’s co-founder and CEO, Yegor Sak, was indicted in connection with an alleged Internet offense committed by an unknown user in June 2023. On April 11, 2025, an Athens Court decided to reject the case against SAK due to lack of proof of any wrongdoing.
Our legal battle is over. A few years back, some idiot used our VPN to do idiot thing. Greece then decided to charge Windscribe CEO @Yegor for the crimes because it was his name on the VPN server proposal. No logs existed of anything. Case dismissed. 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” of sending mass spam -e emails.
An anonymous user allegedly used a windscribe-owned server in Finland to violate a site in Greece and launch the attacks.
However, according to SAK, the Greek authorities did not send any subpoena to the VPN company that the norm requires. Instead, they directly charged SAK, the account holder of the Finland Data Center involved in the criminal activity.
“This sets an regarding a precedent for anyone who owns servers that could be used by others,” SAK said. “If it was maintained, it could have criminalized infrastructure ownership for actions taken by anonymous users.”
Not just a windscribe -Sejr
The case against Windscribe was rejected due to lack of proof that either the VPN company or SAK had even committed any wrongdoing. However, this is not just a win for Windscribe.
“This wasn’t just about me,” Sak said. “It was about drawing a hard line around the role of privacy providers in privacy. Since we do not log user activity, we cannot deliver what we do not have.”
Some say VPNs should be banned because a few people abuse them but it’s a rather mislead approach
Yegor Sak, Windscribe
A VPN without a log is a guarantee that the provider will never store or track users’ activities and other data that can identify them. This means that providers cannot share any information with law enforcement when asked, as these details simply do not exist.
A few companies before Windscribe have proven the legitimacy of this feature in real life over the years. For example, Mullvad did so in 2023 after being hit by an indispensable police attack. Private Internet access (PIA) also proved its demands for non-log twice in court.
The main target of Virtual Private Network (VPN) software is to keep people anonymous when they review the Internet. This is why the EU experts have considered these services a “key challenge” to work on law enforcement, with legislators currently considering whether data storage requirements should be changed.
However, SAK is now repeating Windscribe’s commitment to users’ privacy and transparency. He said, “Some say that VPNs should be banned because a few people abuse them, but it is a rather misleading approach. At this logic we should also ban hammers and cars.”
