Mark Testoni, an SAP SE executive, and Craig Abod, the president and founder of giant software reseller Carahsoft Technology Corp., stood at the podium of an event organized by the Institute for Excellence in Sales.

An FBI raid on Virginia-based Carahsoft as partner software firm SAP comes under investigation for potential price fixing.

It wasn’t immediately clear what prompted the search.

Federal agents on Tuesday searched the Washington-area offices of Carahsoft Technology Corp., a major distributor of technology products to government agencies, according to people familiar with the matter.

News of the raid prompted speculation about possible — but thus far unsubstantiated — links to an ongoing court case that was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland last year and involved efforts to defraud government agencies.

Still business as usual, we're told Virginia-based public sector IT services giant Carahsoft was raided Tuesday by US government agents.… "We can confirm that the FBI conducted court-authorized law enforcement activity on Sunset Hills Road this morning,