The Department of Justice and Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) jointly agreed to voluntarily extend for one year the term of the Russian telecommunications company’s independent compliance monitorship because it has not yet completely fulfilled its obligations under a 2019 deferred prosecution agreement (DPA).

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