After Western sanctions began shutting down sales of high-tech internet equipment to Russia's military and security forces, employees at technology giant Cisco Systems Inc. altered sales records and booked deals under a false customer name, according to internal company documents. The intent, according to a confidential source with deep knowledge of Cisco's Moscow operations, was to dodge the sanctions by masking the true customers behind more innocuous-sounding straw buyers.
BuzzFeed: After sanctions, Cisco altered sales records in Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a meeting of the Council for Interethnic Relations and the Council for the Russian Language at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 19, 2015.
