The source said that the FSB Directorate for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region and the local Investigative Committee carried out…

The source said that the FSB Directorate for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region and the local Investigative Committee carried out investigative and operational activities in the office of the Information Retrieval System “Infopraktik” – the largest database with the help of which you can obtain the necessary, including “closed” information about a person . The security forces themselves actively used this database to obtain simple operational information, instead of turning to cumbersome and clumsy departmental structures. The reason for the visit was an alleged data leak on the personal car of one of the employees of Liteiny, 4. But in reality, everything is a little more complicated. As one of those who understood the situation said, the sanction to stop the operation of the bases was personally given by the head of the FSB Directorate for St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region, General Rodionov. After the events, the Infopraktik databases stopped working.

The Infopraktik databases allowed detectives to find out a person’s place of registration, the license plate number and make of a car, the presence of a criminal record, administrative violations and other useful information, literally in a matter of minutes. Whereas drawing up departmental requests with a bunch of necessary signatures from management takes days, if not weeks.

The Infopraktik databases, collected by former employees of the FSB Directorate for St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region, functioned for many years. In addition to the employees of the police headquarters, they were used by the security services of many state corporations, banks and other organizations. Now their work is also practically paralyzed. It’s funny, but the FSB officers also used these same databases for convenience and speed.

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According to the source, the real reason for the attacks on Infopraktika could be banal commerce – there is a group of employees in uniform who want to take over the information business.