This document discusses how a state-encouraged BGP hijacking occurred in 2013 when an Italian law enforcement agency asked an internet company to hijack the IP addresses of a Russian proxy server provider in order to resolve technical issues that were preventing the agency from accessing surveillance data. The company complied and propagated the hijacked routes globally instead of limiting it locally, constituting an unprecedented breach of trust that violated peering agreements and transit provider policies. The document analyzes BGP data and routing tables to verify the hijacking occurred as requested by the law enforcement agency.