Criminal proceedings were launched

On 6 April 2017, the Aleksandr Krioni Detective Bureau concluded an important stage in an investigation spanning several months, as a result of which our colleagues at IPG (a company specializing in the protection of intellectual property rights), in cooperation with employees from the Russian Government’s Economic Security and Anti-Corruption Department, conducted an operation at the Metalist plant in Kachkanar. The operation revealed the production of replacement parts for excavators in violation of patent law, and the offending parts were seized. 

Criminal proceedings were launched for offences under article 147, paragraph 1 (infringement of invention or patent rights) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.