OREANDA-NEWS Ex-employees of Oracle's "daughter" are trying to force them to return bonuses. This requirement is reported by RBC with reference to the arbitration manager in the bankruptcy case of the branch of an American IT company in Russia, Egor Nepomnyashchy.

Oracle's top managers want to be obliged to return 50 million rubles through the court, which they were paid in 2022. Thus, they are trying to increase the bankruptcy estate during the bankruptcies of a subsidiary. According to Nepomnyashchy, the former head of the division, Yevgeny Dryakin, received 8.4 million rubles, and Alexey Kurochka, the company's senior managing director in Russia and the CIS— received 9.3 million rubles.

These amounts were paid to employees after March 2022, when the company announced its withdrawal from Russia. According to the bankruptcy trustee, Oracle intentionally paid such large premiums in order to reduce the bankruptcy estate.

In March 2022, the developer of cloud solutions in the field of business intelligence, hybrid clouds, machine learning and data storage suspended work in Russia. In 2023, the division in the Russian Federation was declared bankrupt and defaulted on contracts. In order to pay off creditors, the bankruptcy trustee tries to return the money to the bankruptcy estate.

Against the background of sanctions, such large representatives of the IT sector as Microsoft, Oracle, Autodesk, Cisco and others have restricted or stopped work in Russia. According to media reports, the authorities discussed the abolition of liability for the use of pirated software, but then the idea was abandoned. Against the background of the need to accelerate import substitution in the industry, the Ministry of Finance proposed to significantly increase grants for IT projects against the background of the need to accelerate import substitution.