The Moscow office of the Nginx IT company was searched as part of a criminal case on copyright infringement (part 3 of article 146 of the Criminal Code), report The Bell, TASS and Habr .
The search warrant states that no later than October 2004, "unidentified persons" posted a program on the servers of the Rambler Internet Holding company, "indicating deliberately false information" that the rights to it belong to Igor Sysoev.
The press service of the Rambler Group stated that in the early 2000s, the founders of the Nginx_._ company worked in the Internet holding.
“Nginx is a service work, which Igor Sysoev has been developing since the early 2000s as part of an employment relationship with Rambler, so any use of this program without the consent of the Rambler Group is a violation of the exclusive right,” a company representative said.