About commercial bribery of Microsoft employees for 1,500,000 US dollars

December 11, 2020 in the evening stream on Mark Feigin's channel founder Gulagu.net Vladimir Osechkin told how more than 267,000,000 rubles were transferred from a subsidiary of Taganka Most LLC (Mostotrest group of companies), of which at least 115,000,000 rubles were cashed and stolen, including used as a bribe and commercial bribery of Microsoft-Russia employees who falsified dozens of official documents for illegal remuneration in February-March 2017, they deceived the management and compliance of the company and sold more than 20,000 Microsoft licenses to a small company, Taganka Most LLC, bypassing the sanctions, knowing that this SOFTWARE is actually being sold for use by Mostotrest.

This corruption scheme clearly violated the laws of both Russia and the United States, and these illegal actions are subject to sanctions on both sides of the Atlantic. This broadcast and the story about one scheme are just the beginning of a series of publications of the results of the independent anti-corruption investigation of the Independent Committee against torture and corruption Gulagu.net about the facts of grand corruption and embezzlement of billions of rubles from the Russian budget by high-ranking corrupt officials, who caused significant damage to the Russian budget, as well as corrupted a number of Western companies.

Correspondence between the head of the IT Department of Mostotrest and the account Manager of Microsoft-Russia in March 2017. We publish 1/20 of the collected concrete evidence and call on Russia and the United States to launch official investigations into commercial bribery, cashing in, embezzlement, and circumvention of sanctions.

To be continued.

Справочно: За нарушение санкционных ограничений американское законодательство предусматривает не только гражданско-правовую, но и уголовную ответственность. Ответственность распространяется как на физические, так и на юридические лица, независимо от их гражданства. Так, согласно ст. 1705 (а) и Закона о международных чрезвычайных экономических полномочиях, умышленное нарушение или попытка нарушения санкционных ограничений является преступлением, за которое предусмотрена уголовная ответственность в виде штрафа в размере до $1 млн. с лишением свободы сроком до 20 лет или без такового.

(a)Unlawful acts

It shall be unlawful for a person to violate, attempt to violate, conspire to violate, or cause a violation of any license, order, regulation, or prohibition issued under this chapter.

(b)Civil penaltyA civil penalty may be imposed on any person who commits an unlawful act described in subsection (a) in an amount not to exceed the greater of—(1)

$250,000; or

(2)

an amount that is twice the amount of the transaction that is the basis of the violation with respect to which the penalty is imposed.

(c)Criminal penalty

A person who willfully commits, willfully attempts to commit, or willfully conspires to commit, or aids or abets in the commission of, an unlawful act described in subsection (a) shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $1,000,000, or if a natural person, may be imprisoned for not more than 20 years, or both.

(Pub. L. 95–223, title II, § 206, Dec. 28, 1977, 91 Stat. 1628; Pub. L. 102–393, title VI, § 629, Oct. 6, 1992, 106 Stat. 1773; Pub. L. 102–396, title IX, § 9155, Oct. 6, 1992, 106 Stat. 1943; Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title XIV, § 1422, Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2725; Pub. L. 109–177, title IV, § 402, Mar. 9, 2006, 120 Stat. 243; Pub. L. 110–96, § 2(a), Oct. 16, 2007, 121 Stat. 1011.)