An international anticorruption group Transparency International believed that some of the Microsoft’s corporation lawyers in Russia were helping fellow corrupted law officials into steal money from people accused of pirating Microsoft software...
Transparency International stated that they had a numerous number of reports from business owners throughout Russia who said they had been victims of these antics. The scheme is believed to work like this. Corrupted officials seize computers, and claim to have found pirated unlicensed Microsoft software on them. They then demand bribes from the people they accuse of putting the pirated software on their computers with help from the corrupted lawyers.
Microsoft believed that people who had no legal authority to represent Microsoft were disguising themselves as Microsoft officials to extort money.
Microsoft made a statement in response to the piracy inquiries in Russia. Microsoft states that "We take the concerns that have been raised very seriously. When we grant powers-of-attorney to outside counsel to aid our antipiracy efforts, we vet candidates carefully, we bind them contractually to strict standards and protocols, we train them and we monitor their activities." they state that they have to protect their products from Piracy but now they even more so have to protect their company from fraud and schemes. They agreed to increase monitoring in there company, try to their best effort to prevent individuals or organizations from fraudening claiming to represent Microsoft and increase awareness of Microsoft’s Info donor Program in Russia.
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