It was a fairly embarrassing incident. I didn’t see that the recruiting agency was not a stable partner but a liability waiting to happen. Eventually it did happen and the company went into insolvency proceedings. My attorney was setting my expectations to receive very little if anything at all. Not only did this make me quite angry, it was money that I needed to pay the rent.
I was speaking griping about this issue to my friend who came up with a rather unique solution. There are firms in every country that will try and recover money that is owed, and in this case it was a company that was in Moscow that also had offices in Germany.
I had already started with legal proceedings, but I was intrigued by their web site. Below is a translation of some of the sentences from their web page.
Specializing in money collection in the traditional Russian style. Our close work with government agencies has proved very effective in all eastern European countries
Through our corporate network it is possible to obtain a variety of information that allows us to track the debtor anywhere. Various methods such as letters and surveillance are effective no matter where they are located. We offer a particularly unique and close working relationship in Russia. There we work almost hand in hand with the state authorities (FSB and Russian militia) to process your claim.
I was very very close on a couple of occasions to have this highly regarded collection firm take my case.