MTS compliance monitorship extended one year
By 
Jaclyn Jaeger2022-03-09T16:53:00
The Department of Justice and Mobile TeleSystems jointly agreed to voluntarily extend for one year the term of the Russian telecommunications company’s independent compliance monitorship in accordance with a 2019 deferred prosecution agreement.
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