# Cellebrite — "Cellebrite Stops Selling Its Digital Intelligence Offerings in Russian Federation and Belarus" (press release, Mar 18 2021) > *This is Cellebrite's own March 18, 2021 press release announcing that "effective immediately" it would stop selling its solutions and services to customers in the Russian Federation and Belarus. The move followed Haaretz reporting on Cellebrite's presence in sanctioned Belarus and came amid mounting human-rights pressure. As a primary-source vendor statement it documents both the dated fact of the Russia/Belarus withdrawal and the company's own framing of its export-policy decisions. It matters to the Arkansas surveillance investigation because Cellebrite — a phone-extraction vendor distinct from NSO Group / Pegasus spyware — is among the surveillance vendors adopted by Arkansas law-enforcement agencies, and its human-rights record is part of the vendor record.* ## Source metadata - **Publisher:** Cellebrite (corporate newsroom / press releases) - **URL:** https://cellebrite.com/en/cellebrite-stops-selling-its-digital-intelligence-offerings-in-russian-federation-and-belarus/ - **Archived:** 2026-06-07 via firecrawl_scrape - **Tier:** 2 (primary/official — the vendor's own statement) ## Extract — verbatim (lightly cleaned) **Cellebrite Stops Selling Its Digital Intelligence Offerings in Russian Federation and Belarus** March 18, 2021 > TYSONS CORNER, Va., March 18, 2021 — Cellebrite, the global leader in Digital Intelligence (DI) solutions for public and private sectors, announced today that effective immediately it will stop selling its solutions and services to customers in Russian Federation and Belarus. > "Cellebrite empowers law enforcement agencies and enterprises to make our communities safer by providing solutions that help lawfully acquire digital evidence in criminal investigations and civil proceedings," said Yossi Carmil, CEO of Cellebrite. "As part of our standard business operations, we regularly review and update our compliance policies to ensure we operate according to accepted international rules and regulations." **About Cellebrite** > Cellebrite is the global leader in working with public and private organizations to transform how they manage Digital Intelligence in investigations to accelerate justice and ensure data privacy. ... Trusted by thousands of leading agencies and companies in more than 140 countries, Cellebrite is helping customers fulfill the joint mission of protecting and saving lives. (Page metadata: article published / modified 2021-03-18. og:description: "Cellebrite announces it will immediately stop selling digital intelligence solutions and services to customers in Russia and Belarus.")