IOS Group Inc.

Article based on an application to collect evidencefor a criminal investigation into alleged tax evasion - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Russia - that was filed at federal court in the USA on October 31, 2007. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include IOS Group Inc., Panavto Co. CJSC, Panavto-Rostov CJSC, Rolligon GmbH, Offshore Management International, Andrei Nikolayevich Pavlovich, Oleg Grigoryevich Kovalenko, Sergey Alekseevich Kushchenko, Viktor Grigoryevich Vakulenko, Viktor Ivanovich Smirnov, Vladimir Alekseevich Savinykh, Nadezhda Sergeevna Moroz, Anatoly Vladimirovich Klimnyuk, Alex Feldman, Bruno David Goldberg, Philip Berwell, Sid Garnett, American Incorporators Ltd., Yuris Kriyums, and Peters Kriyums.

Criminal charges are being prepared in the British Virgin Islands against a Bermuda domiciled investment fund that is suspected of being a money laundering vehicle for Russia's Telecommunications Minister, Leonid Reiman.The BVI authorities have drafted "preliminary charges" against IPOC International

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in the British Virgin Islands into IPOC International Growth Fund Ltd., Jeffrey Galmond, Michael Ludwig Rudolf North, Lapal Limited, Albany Invest Limited and Mercury Import Limited for allegedly laundering the proceeds of corruption by Russia's Minister of Telecommunications, Leonid Reiman.