15 Apr 2021 17:51
Digital Development Ministry proposes creating separate judicial authority to consider criminal cases against IT cos for economic reasons - Shadaev
MOSCOW. April 15 (Interfax) - The Russian Ministry for Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media is proposing to introduce a special court to consider criminal cases on economic articles in relation to IT-companies, ministry head Maksut Shadaev said. We all understand that we have a very large public sector customer: state companies, state agencies. We know that there are criminal cases against all major IT-companies, almost all of them. We understand that investigating these cases is always difficult, because special expertise, special skills are required, Shadaev said Thursday at a meeting of the Federation Council s Digital Economy Development Council on Digital maturity of the social sphere and economy of Russian constituent regions.