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It's a Russian founded, owned, operated, and dependent corporation that happens to be registered in Schiphol. It's not Dutch except for the registration.
by nieve 5y ago
It's a Russian founded, owned, operated, and dependent corporation that happens to be registered in Schiphol. It's not Dutch except for the registration.
- ausudhz 5y agoTax reasons. FCA had the same schema (the automaker, now part of Stellantis)
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoSecurity reasons. If you own a company today, tomorrow it might belong to someone else. Russian courts are infamously far too flexible to tie any significant property to russian entities.
- ausudhz 5y agoIs it? Any source that can confirm what you say? Because I can see lots of Russian entities still based in Russia Eg: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky_Lab https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky_Lab
- llamara 5y agoKaspersky has too many ties with the authorities anyway. Russia is infamous for pressing businessmen to give up their assets. Evgeny Chichvarkin and Mikhail Khodorkovsky are quite interesting examples (check them out on wikipedia). In Russia we say "the 1st rule of making business in Russia is to not host your business in Russia". Yandex and jetbrains are a good example of this rule! I really doubt that tax evasion was the primary goal of hosting Yandex's HQ in Netherlands
- laurent92 5y agoDoes Jetbrains have ties with Russia? If so, I see a major blow that Russia could inflict tothe Western world…