Police search Russian office of IBM
Webplanet.ru
On December 13, the police converged on the offices of the companies
IBM,
Lanit and
R-Style in vehicles marked as "special purpose police units" and started searching the buildings. Employees arriving for work were not allowed access to their workplaces while those already at work were ordered not to turn off their workstations or leave the corporate premises without prior notice. One of the versions of what provoked the search is the companies' alleged involvement in corruption schemes that enabled the
Russian Pension Fund and
Health Ministry to skim interest off deals with integrators.
