A search is currently underway at Infotek, one of Zaporizhzhia's largest IT companies. The company's founder, Mark Marchenko, told AIN.UA this. According to him, about ten employees from the cybercrime department of the Zaporizhzhia department for combating economic crimes visited the company's headquarters this afternoon. Law enforcement officials claim they are acting at the request of the FBI in a case involving the theft of funds from an American bank. Marchenko is convinced that law enforcement is simply after the money.
Mark Marchenko
Marchenko himself is in Kyiv today and learned of the search from employees over the phone. He says that the Economic Crimes Directorate is currently inventorying and preparing to seize the company's property. "It's a slow process; the office has over 50 work machines in 300 square meters," he says. The company's operations have been suspended. Employees are not being allowed out of the office. The press is also not allowed to enter the scene.
Marchenko calls the accusations of embezzlement from an unnamed American bank nonsense. He believes law enforcement came to "make the company pay," as they had already made it clear they were prepared to "seek solutions on the spot." Infotek recently held a large conference in Zaporizhzhia, attended by approximately 1000 people. The company covered the bulk of the conference expenses. Marchenko believes this sent a signal to law enforcement that the company had extra cash. "The authorities have essentially not changed and are still operating in the same old way, using the same methods," the entrepreneur says.
Infotek unites a group of outsourcing companies in Zaporizhzhia. Infotek employs over 100 people. The company's founder is 21-year-old business whiz kid Mark Marchenko.
As a reminder, in early August, tax police shut down a software development company in Cherkasy. The outsourcers, who performed work for North American clients, were accused of tax evasion on the programmers' salaries.
Roman Sudolsky, AIN
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