Total amount of seized equipment is about $500 thousand
Ukrainian police seized equipment of VKontakte’s Kyiv office half a million dollar worth, writes on his page social network’s founder Pavel Durov.
The pretext is that our servers could allegedly store financial records of a Ukrainian company evading taxes. VKontakte's servers in Kyiv had only copies of video and audio materials, there can be no documents as such there», said P.Durov.
The network’s technical director says that the police seized servers with no legal grounds.
As a result, video and audio content for Ukrainian users is loading more slowly, as all data is delivered straight from St. Petersburg. In order to speed up servicing, Vkontakte's founders began expanding the Frankfurt node.
