A former corporate “VimpelCom” – Penny Lane Realty – operator accused of extortion and blackmail. The operator put employee on account of half a million rubles. According to Penny Lane, “VimpelCom” offered to settle the situation in exchange for access to properties to use with the realtor.
Writes “RBC daily” referring to the general director of Penny Lane Realty George Dzagurova, the son of one of his employees connected to corporate rates, a week stay in Egypt, spent four hours in the internet with iPhone, at a cost of 522,000 rubles.
The companys subscribers have been connected to the tariff plan “Live easy 180″, and under normal circumstances, the amount of use of the internet for four hours could make 139 rubles, but the score was greater than about 3000.
Dzagurov told the publication that tried to resolve the conflict with the statement: “They asked me to address the issue, instead we offered her a partnership: we had to impose a service provider to our customers – the owners of country cottages and business centers.”
Spokesman for the “VimpelCom” Anna Aybasheva refutes this claim. Account for 522 thousand rubles, she says, there was a fault of the subscriber: “Even if you do not use the Internet with iPhone, Visual Voicemail application and Mail will still continue to check for new messages in the background. Only solution in this situation – turn off data roaming.”