Russia’s Raiders

Posted by Matt in June 7th, 2008

Companies are paying public officials to raid the offices of business rivals and subject them to criminal investigations

It seemed like any other workday at Togliatti Azot, a giant chemical factory in Russia’s Samara region, on the Volga River 600 miles east of Moscow. Engineers were on their morning rounds, and union representatives had just finished a talk about financial support for newlyweds. Then around 11 a.m., dozens of men dressed in camouflage and toting automatic weapons charged into the administration building. “We thought it was a terrorist attack,” Sergei Korushev, the plant’s deputy director, says of the September, 2005, raid.

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