The Federal Bureau of Investigation dispatched brokers to the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing store in Zionsville, Indiana on Wednesday morning.
The FBI is alleged to have instructed workers inside RLL to depart their computer systems and associated digital units in place, collect their belongings, and depart the constructing as brokers started an investigation.
The supply of the investigation is alleged to contain a former worker of the Andretti International IndyCar staff, who left the staff to affix RLL in a senior engineering function, and the alleged switch of mental property from their former staff to their present staff.
“We’re cooperating totally with investigators,” mentioned the staff in a press release issued on Wednesday night. “Provided that that is an ongoing investigation, we’re restricted in what data we will share proper now, however we intend to supply further data as quickly as we will.”
The FBI can be alleged to have visited the Andretti store in August to search for proof of attainable IP-related improprieties.
A name to Andretti COO Rob Edwards on Wednesday to inquire concerning the alleged FBI go to to the staff’s store, and whether or not that go to was probably linked to in the present day’s FBI look at RLL, was met with a “No remark.”
This story has been up to date to incorporate the assertion from RLL.
