MOSCOW, July 12 - RAPSI. IKEA is cooperating with the investigators and providing them with the required information, IKEA's Russian press service told the PRIME business news agency.

On Wednesday, the Interior Ministry reported that the court had reviewed the case of attempted commercial bribery combined with large-scale extortion and sentenced former IKEA MOS Leasing Division head Okan Yunalan, a Turkish national, to five years in prison.

"IKEA consistently combats corruption," the press service said. "All of our divisions operate completely transparently. The company has adopted a strict code of conduct and its provisions are binding not only for rank-and-file employees and executives, but also for business partners. These regulations are uniform throughout the world and Russia is no exclusion."

The ministry reports that Yunalan was caught unlawfully accepting 6.5 million rubles ($197,000) in April 2011, which he had demanded from a businessman in return for leasing him two premises in a Moscow retail center. Two other suspects in the case - Swedish national Charles Ola and Turkish national Ferit Yildirim - have been placed on the federal wanted list.