Women workers are forced to strip to their underwear as part of daily checks to prevent theft
Women workers are forced to strip naked as part of daily checks to prevent theft of undercover footage from the Russian version of Amazon, run by the country’s top female oligarch
A leaked video shows women being forced to strip naked and subjected to body searches to make sure they don’t bring any prohibited items into or out of their Wildberries workplace.
The company is headed by Putin-friendly oligarch Tatyana Bakalchuk, 47, a self-made billionaire, mother of seven and a former English teacher with close ties to the Kremlin.
The video is reportedly set in Putin’s home city of Saint Petersburg, but clearly shows her female employees in many locations being forced to strip down to their underwear for embarrassing body searches by female inspectors.
This occurs in the morning and evening, according to various reports.
Bakalchuk’s platform Wildberries has grown to become Russia’s largest online marketplace with more than 48,000 employees amid claims it has profited from “grey” imports without evading Western sanctions.
The searches take place in the morning when staff arrive and when they leave the premises in the evening
The video shows women being searched by female inspectors, but men are also reportedly subjected to the ritual
The company is run by Putin-friendly oligarch Tatyana Bakalchuk, 47, a self-made billionaire mother of seven
The images of the comics research have shocked Russia.
life.ru said searches are being conducted in the morning to prevent warehouse workers from carrying phones or watches to the workplace.
“Workers undress under the surveillance of video cameras and go to the inspection point,” said a report.
Other reports say that ‘the working day in the Wildberries warehouses ends with a house search and stripping down to underwear.
“This is the management of the company that is trying to prevent theft in warehouses.”
The video shows women being searched by female inspectors, but men are also subjected to the ritual, according to Life, whose journalist went undercover on the platform.
“Our correspondent … felt all the ‘charms’ of working in the ‘Berries’ warehouse,” it reported.
‘He only worked there for three days, but he had enough impressions to last a lifetime.
“According to his research, every morning in the warehouse really starts with a humiliating procedure.”
Bakalchuk – Russia’s richest woman – had a fortune of £10.7 billion, but her empire has been hit by recent strikes over her strict job demands.
She recently faced a staff revolt across Russia over draconian new rules to withhold money from employees’ payments if a customer complained they received the wrong item or because of product defects.
Bakalchuk – Russia’s richest woman – has a fortune of £10.7 billion, but her empire has been hit by a number of claims of ill-treatment of workers
life.ru said searches are being conducted in the morning to prevent warehouse workers from carrying phones or watches to the workplace
The exposed women lined up for further security checks. Male employees are also searched, the newspaper reports
Tatyana Bakalchuk, left, is the founder and owner of Wildberries, Russia’s largest online store, known as “Russian eBay” and “Russian Amazon”
Her methods led to stunning success during Putin’s war in Ukraine with a 95 percent year-over-year increase in sales.
Putin consults with her about retail policy in online meetings.
The platform was originally set up by Bakalchuk when she was on maternity leave in 2004.
It had 1.5 billion orders by 2022 as a vital retail channel at a time when the Russian economy was hit by punitive sanctions over Putin’s war on Ukraine.
Kiev has sanctioned both Wildberries and Bakalchuk as sellers of Russian military uniforms and propaganda.