Spies and scouts and the reverse side of the coin.

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Spies and scouts and the reverse side of the coin.

Do you know that the deputy head of the neighboring department drinks weekly with the director of development of a competitor? What is the one who calls in every evening for your new pretty secretary - the OBEP operative? And the cleaning manager Baba Nadya, who has access to all the offices of the organization, receives an additional salary from the winner of the last 10 tenders? Do not be surprised, all your secrets have long been revealed! Someone got them honestly - during competitive intelligence, and someone dishonestly - with the help of industrial espionage, sending you all these “wonderful” people.

The methods used by competitors in the course of industrial espionage are illegal; these include:

“Kickbacks” (Bribe) - Criminal Code of the Russian Federation 23, Art. 204. “Commercial bribery”
The introduction of a spy - Criminal Code of the Russian Federation 22, Art. 183 "Illegal receipt and disclosure of information constituting a commercial, tax or banking secret"
Coercion, intimidation - Criminal Code of the Russian Federation 21, Art. 163 "Extortion"
Tracking, eavesdropping - Criminal Code of the Russian Federation 19, Art. 138 "Violation of the secrecy of correspondence, telephone conversations, mail, telegraph or other messages"

"Agents" which competitors can recruit, implement on their own, as well as use the services of intermediary firms. "Spy games" are not children's jokes, entailing both image and financial losses.

Competitors' agents are found not only in Hollywood detective films, cases of industrial espionage are not uncommon in modern Russia:

Bun with a secret
The baker was convicted of industrial espionage.
The verdict in an unusual criminal case was made by the court of the city of Bogdanovich. Former local bakery master Natalia Osintseva was found guilty of industrial espionage. The woman wanted to abduct in her native enterprise ... a recipe for making rolls, for which she was sentenced to pay a fine of 13 thousand rubles.

The article, which condemned the 36-year-old employee, 183 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Illegal receipt and disclosure of information constituting a commercial, tax or banking secret", is still rarely used in legal practice. Although in fact, at each enterprise cases of theft of commercial information by former employees or “mishandled Cossacks” may result. But usually such scandals do not lead to proceedings in the police, and even more so in court. Firstly, we need a strong evidence base, and secondly, entrepreneurs do not yet believe in the seriousness of the punishment under this article. According to the research of one of the consulting firms, approximately 90 percent of Russian companies faced theft of commercial information, and only five percent of company executives decided to involve law enforcement agencies in the investigation and punish scouts by law.

“For a long time, it was believed that neither the federal law“ On Trade Secrets ”, nor article 183 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, providing for responsibility for industrial espionage, are in effect,” the head of the legal service of one of the large companies specializing in the production of building materials told the “RG” correspondent , Yuri Sidorov. - Although the punishment provided for by this article is quite significant - up to ten years in prison. But the judicial practice is such that cases involving even large companies did not end with such a serious sentence. Even such a high-profile case as the accusation of the Zavadsky brothers of stealing Gazprom’s commercial information ended in zilch: those accused of industrial espionage were sentenced to probation. It is clear why the owners of small and medium-sized enterprises do not even try to prosecute employees who steal their secrets. In Bogdanovich, one might say, a precedent has been created.

As far as we know, the “case of buns” was brought to its logical conclusion thanks to the firm position of the director of the company, Irina Kazantseva, who is also a lawyer of the enterprise. She is confident that trade secrets must be protected regardless of the size of the business and the importance of secrets. Incidentally, the first high-profile case of industrial espionage in Russia was opened in Yekaterinburg in 2003. FSB officers found scouts at the Uralmash plant working for the company's rivals. Two women, office workers, copied and handed over certain documents to competitors for a fee. Revealed spies during the transfer of copies. However, it didn’t even reach the court then - the enterprise withdrew the claim in connection with the insignificance of the damage suffered.

It is well known that in order to protect a business from spyware attacks, it is necessary to seriously invest in technical security tools: video cameras, voice recorders, silencers, and bugs that guard the confidentiality of information. Japanese companies spend up to $ 200 million a year on the purchase of such equipment, while American companies spend nearly half a billion. The volume of the domestic market of information security tools, according to some reports, is $ 150 million. But the state still remains the main customer of such equipment.

Russian entrepreneurs are in no hurry to arm themselves to the teeth with anti-spyware technology. One of the Moscow consulting companies in the course of research came to the conclusion: the most effective way to obtain information about competitors is not the use of technical devices, but the use of the human factor. Simply put, bribery or deception of staff. Up to 70 percent of confidential commercial information is obtained in such a simple way.

It is curious that in Bogdanovich, the convicted employee of the bakery could also get the desired recipes without special tricks. As the company admitted to us, all the information about the composition of the test - in grams and proportions - hang right in the workshop, everyone can use it. Another thing is that bakers, upon admission to work, give a non-disclosure of trade secret for five years.

This fact was the main reason for initiating a criminal case against Natalya Osintseva. In addition, the woman was caught red-handed when she tried to penetrate the computer database of the enterprise.

“A necessary condition for initiating a criminal case under article 183 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation is the fact that the employee does not have free access to information constituting a commercial secret, and the owner of the enterprise took all appropriate measures for this,” explained Olga Teterina, senior assistant to the prosecutor of the Sverdlovsk region. - According to investigators, the woman wanted to either sell her bread making recipe to her competitors, or open her own bakery. But in this case, the purpose for which commercial information was stolen is not important. The main thing - it is proved that the employee really tried to find out the secrets.

Spy network detected at Uralmashzavod
Yekaterinburg. The Uralmash plant revealed facts of industrial espionage. The employees of the plant and representatives of two firms are accused of divulging information constituting a trade secret. This was announced on Friday at a briefing at the FSB Directorate for the Sverdlovsk Region.

According to the head of the service for counterintelligence of industrial and transport facilities of the regional FSB department, Alexander Valeev, the Ural counterintelligence officers first opened a criminal case under article 183 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Illegal receipt and disclosure of information constituting commercial, tax or banking secrets”. Employees of the enterprise for the money made a copy of the technical documentation of the plant for two commercial companies that were controlled by Uralmashzavod . The investigation is now being carried out by the investigative department of the FSB. More detailed information has not yet been announced, since the investigation is not completed.

The article under which criminal proceedings have been instituted provides for a fine or imprisonment of up to two years. If, at the same time, it is proved that the offenders acted for selfish purposes, then the punishment may be increased to 5 years in prison. Since the advent of this article in the criminal code in 1997, no one has been convicted of it.

For reference: OJSC Uralmashzavod is part of the largest engineering corporation United Machine-Building Plants (OMZ), which unites the leading plants in Russia and abroad: Uralmashzavod, Izhora Plants, Krasnoye Sormovo, UPET (Romania) and a number of other manufacturing and design enterprises. OMZ specializes in the engineering, production, sales and service of equipment and machinery for the nuclear industry, oil and gas industry, mining, sea and river transportation, as well as the production of special steels.
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Saransk. The fact of the transfer of confidential information to unauthorized persons about the work of one of the enterprises of the capital of Mordovia was revealed.
In the capital of Mordovia, a group of people who illegally used confidential information of Orbita OJSC, one of the largest enterprises in the city, was detained by employees of the department for combating crimes in the field of high technologies (Department "R") of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic. According to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Moldova, seven employees of the OJSC, "using their official position, transmitted to their friends very confidential information about the work of their enterprise for personal gain." At the same time, Interior Ministry operatives do not exclude that the information was transmitted to the competitors of the enterprise.

Sverdlovsk security officers caught Russians selling industrial secrets to Colombia
In Yekaterinburg, two employees of Ural Civil Aviation Plant OJSC (UZGA) were convicted of transmitting information representing commercial secrets to foreigners.

The Chkalovsky District Court of Yekaterinburg convicted employees of the UZGA Evgeny Dulov and Taras Dmitriev. They, as it was established, for the money handed over to the citizen living in Colombia, the design and technological documentation for the repair of Mi-8 helicopters.

According to the press service of the regional department of the FSB, even earlier, a Russian citizen came to the attention of the Sverdlovsk security officers, who repeatedly traveled to the Colombian capital Bogotá through the UZGA. There, as it turned out, he established contacts with representatives of the Vertical de Aviation company, which serviced the Russian dual-purpose helicopters Mi-8 in Latin America.

The contacts, apparently, were so close that this citizen of ours eventually quit the UZGA and moved to Colombia with his family. And then he received an offer from his former colleagues Dulov and Dmitriev to “collaborate” on a paid basis. Based on an old friendship, he asked them to give him some information regarding the repair of aircraft. Explained: for the organization of a helicopter service center.

Former colleagues could not know that they were disclosing the secret. However, they transferred this intellectual property of their native plant for 10 thousand dollars to their foreign partner. It used to be called industrial espionage. But now, since commercial secrets were not disclosed, they were put on trial on milder charges. And they themselves, having pleaded guilty, asked the court to consider their case in a special order, that is, they automatically lowered their punishment bar.

The judge sentenced Dulov to a fine of 80 thousand rubles, and Dmitriev - 70 thousand. In addition, Dulov is forbidden to occupy positions related to access to trade secrets at the plant during the year.

As we were told in the regional department of the FSB, the issue of extraditing the initiator of the deal, a former Russian citizen living in Colombia, to the Russian authorities is now being decided. He will most likely be put on the international wanted list.

Fosagro employee convicted of insider favor of foreign companies

An insider, convicted in Moscow for transferring commercial secrets of a private enterprise to foreigners, worked at Fosagro, a city law enforcement source said. “The name of this person is Topchyan, he worked at Fosagro AG CJSC (holding management company),” the source said.

Today, the metropolitan police announced that the head of the sales department of one of the Russian enterprises for the production of mineral fertilizers has been convicted of divulging commercial secrets that cost his company $ 2 million. What punishment the man received, the Central Internal Affairs Directorate did not specify, but the corresponding article involves up to three years in prison. According to the police, convicted in 2010-2011. illegally passed on official information to interested foreign customers in the field of sales of mineral fertilizers, in particular information “on the production of feed phosphates, the conditions for their sale, prices”.

The Fosagro holding includes Apatit OJSC, Fosagro-Cherepovets OJSC, Agro-Cherepovets CJSC, Balakovo Mineral Fertilizers LLC, Metakhim and a number of other assets. The company's net profit under IFRS grew in 2012 by 9% to 24.51 billion rubles., Revenue - by 5% to 105.3 billion rubles.

According to statistics, in 9 out of 10 companies there were cases of information theft, but few cases received publicity.

So, every year 200-250 incidents related to the illegal receipt or disclosure of trade secrets are recorded. In fact, the number of such crimes is several times greater.

The outflow of customers, millions of losses, loss of reputation - that’s not enough that enterprising “Cossacks” can leave behind.

 

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Spies and scouts the reverse side of the coin. Industrial espionage and more.

Paid Secrets
The Tver court of Moscow sentenced the Zaslavsky brothers. It became a precedent in judicial practice for the application of Article 183 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - for an attempt to collect classified commercial information.
[DLMURL="https://www.rg.ru/2009/05/12/sud.html"] Tverskoy court in Moscow sentenced in the case of the Zaslavsky brothers [/ DLMURL]
In common people, this crime is called industrial espionage. The Zaslavsky brothers received a suspended sentence of two years. The FSB, in which they opened this case, are convinced that our liberal legislation is too lenient to those who find out secrets and are capable of damaging Russia's interests by billions of dollars. The brothers were actually given the maximum of what the law provides. This discrepancy between the gravity of the crime and the insignificance of punishment proves that the threat from such crimes is underestimated.

Intelligence agencies became interested in the activities of Alexander and Ilya Zaslavsky after an employee of a security research institute, a subsidiary of Gazprom, applied to the security agencies. According to him, they tried to get information that constitutes a trade secret for a fee. The buyers were the Zaslavsky brothers. They first offered the scientist $ 500, and when he refused, they increased the rate by 10 times. The information in the special services speaks succinctly about the essence of the brothers' interests: scientific reports with the prospects for developing a number of the largest gas fields.

In March last year, as soon as at a conspiratorial meeting an employee of the research institute handed over to Zaslavsky the documents marked with the heading "Gazprom's trade secret" and received $ 5,000, the brothers were detained.

The FSB specified that it was the finale of a carefully prepared special operation. By that time, the maximum possible dossier had already been collected about the activities of the brothers. Along with Russian citizenship, the Zaslavskys also had US citizenship and seemingly sincerely fulfilled the oath taken upon obtaining this citizenship, namely: to forget about the interests of other states and serve only the interests of the USA. This is a mandatory oath. True, the Zaslavsky understood US interests in their own way.

The operatives read the printouts of the brothers' telephone conversations with interest. When one of them, Ilya, was to be appointed president of the British Council Alumni Club, he told his brother how he would celebrate his appointment. No banquets or restaurants. Ilya wanted to dance on the flag of Russia.

By itself, this bravado could also be a crime, but the FSB operatives in Moscow and the Moscow region, together with the corporate defense service of Gazprom, were interested in something else: in whose interests did the Zaslavsky ones act? Since the second brother, Alexander worked at TNK-BP, they decided to carry out searches there as well.

The FSB DSP specified that “during the search material evidence was found and seized confirming the fact of industrial espionage, namely, copies of documents of state authorities and the Russian government, reports and analytical notes related to subsoil use related to trade secrets, as well as business cards of employees of foreign military departments and the CIA. "

Now the brothers continue to occupy high posts. In all countries of the West, people who are eager for trade secrets receive very real terms. In Sweden, for example, three citizens were sentenced to 8 years for industrial espionage at Erickson. In the UK, an Aerospace security officer was sentenced to 11 years in prison. In the United States, former Boeing employees have been sentenced to 15 years for buying information about a Lockheed Martin rival. And this is not the limit. In the United States, a Canadian engineer of Chinese descent was threatened with a 25-year sentence for trying to sell Malaysian Air Force software.


In Lipetsk recorded industrial espionage in favor of China
The operational department of the FSB Directorate for the Lipetsk Region accepted an unusual statement for production. The security service of the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant accused 64-year-old Muscovite Ivan Trunov of industrial espionage in favor of Chinese metallurgical companies. This has not happened in the history of domestic metallurgy. If the fact of espionage is proved, then Mr. Trunov faces up to five years in prison, the Kommersant newspaper writes on Friday.

At the end of last year, the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works (NLMK) entered into an agreement with the Chinese company Mayerton Trading on the supply of slabs. Slab - steel plate, prefabricated metallurgical production. The agent of the Chinese company was Ivan Trunov.

According to Victor Khripunkov, NLMK security director, the plant’s security has received information that the agent is looking for documents with information that is the intellectual property of the enterprise. Mr. Trunov was observed. On January 25, Trunov was detained while taking documents from the enterprise.

The documents, as it turned out, were instructions on the application of technology for the production of continuously cast slabs from converter steel, registered in Rospatent as the know-how of NLMK specialists. Employees of the FSB Directorate were called to NLMK, who recorded the fact of the removal of documents. Nevertheless, Mr. Trunov was released to Moscow, and NLMK experts decided for a few more days whether it was worth giving a move. In the end, an official statement demanding to investigate the fact of industrial espionage was filed with the local FSB.

As explained by the NLMK press service, the documents seized from Mr. Trunov contained information on technology to improve the quality of slabs while reducing costs. These data may be of interest to industry in China, which means that it was impossible to exclude the possibility of repeated attempts to steal valuable information? that is why the case was given a move.

Employees of the Moscow representative office of Mayerton were extremely stingy with comments. Secretary General Director Vladislav Kopeiko refused to say whether Mr. Trunov is their employee, but added that, in general, much has been exaggerated in the story of his capture and "the competent authorities will certainly figure it out."

The FSB Directorate for the Lipetsk Region confirmed the fact that the management submitted the application, but emphasized that a criminal case has not yet been opened: counterintelligence agents cannot yet determine by which article of the Criminal Code qualify the incident at NLMK.

According to lawyers, Mr. Trunov can be charged only under Article 183 of the Criminal Code (“illegal receipt and disclosure of information constituting commercial, tax or banking secrets”), which provides for a fine or imprisonment of up to two years. If, at the same time, it is proved that the offender acted for selfish purposes, then the punishment may be increased to five years in prison.

FSB discovered a military spy in Novosibirsk

In Novosibirsk, employees of the regional FSB department detained a man who contacted foreign intelligence agencies in order to sell state secret information. This was reported on June 14 by Interfax.

According to the press service of the Novosibirsk Federal Security Service, the spy turned out to be a former employee of one of the defense enterprises. The man, whose name is not called, independently established contact with Western intelligence and, for a fee, transferred information on the modernization of military equipment at her disposal. The intelligence of which country the information was sent to and what the size of the spy’s fee was was not disclosed.

The attacker was caught red-handed on the morning of Friday, June 14, at the time when he took the reward from the mailbox for materials sent to foreigners.

In addition, security officers were able to stop one of the residents of the Novosibirsk region from transmitting other secret information to Western intelligence agencies. The materials concerned infrastructure facilities that should be used during the period of mobilization and wartime. To date, both men received an official warning about the inadmissibility of actions that could entail treason.

 

[Андрей Захаров]

Re: Spies and scouts the reverse side of the coin.

Thank you Vitya for the good selection))) Even in Saransk, here are the "spies" or whatever: lol:

 

[Борис Вячеславович]

Re: Spies and scouts the reverse side of the coin.

thank

 

[Детектив-Юг]

Re: Spies and scouts the reverse side of the coin.

Thank you Vitya for the good selection))) Even in Saransk, here are the "spies" or whatever: lol:

What is there Saransk!
Even if we have here. One was not even allowed into the conference of detectives in Russia, or was not released. : roll:

 

[Частный детектив Самара.]

Well yes. I was told that recruiters came to the ARD congress in Samara. Only now he himself was at the congress of the Black Sea Fleet in Kiev, neither who recruited me, nor anyone needed: lol:

 

[Плотников Юрий Михайлович]

Thank!

 

[Турабян Владимир]

THANK!

 

[Краев Евгений Леонидович]

Thanks, interesting!

 

[Марат]

Thank!