Latin Letters in Government Contract Bid Invitations Illegal

RF Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) discovered that some governmental entities, when placing on the specialized official web site the information on government purchase orders, had used in the order texts Latin letters instead of similar Russian letters, the numeral “0” instead of the letter “о,” etc. The apparent purpose was to prevent potential bidders from finding the order in the database, and, accordingly, letting the bidder favored by the responsible official to easily win the contract. FAS found the practice illegal and cancelled several of the resulting contracts of such kind. FAS warned responsible officials of administrative and possibly criminal liability for using Latin letters in Russian governmental order texts.

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