In St. Petersburg, the deputy general manager of a company engaged in engineering communications and an employee of the information technology department of the Federal Tax Service were arrested in a case of bribery mediation. According to the investigators, the manager of the St. Petersburg representative office of Minsk Dairy Plant No. 1 was offered to exclude the company from the program of on-site tax audit for 21 million rubles, the money was intended for officials of the Federal Tax Service. The businesswoman, under the control of the security forces, handed over the dummy money at the Eggplant restaurant, after which they were both detained. The court sent them to pre-trial detention until January 1.