Seizure of assets owned by Federal Guard Service General’s relatives upheldThe Moscow City Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s ruling to seize property belonging to the relatives of the Federal Guard Service (FSO) General Gennady Lopyrev, who stands charged with taking a grand bribe.11:30 28.06.2017
State Duma MPs propose to toughen punishment for corruptionA number of Russian MPs have drafted a bill on toughened criminal liability for corruption crimes.12:42 26.06.2017
Baltic Fleet inspection officer fined $4,200 for corruptionThe head of the Baltic Fleet Port State Control Inspection’ inspector department Vladimir Dzboyev has been sentenced to a 240,000 ruble fine ($4,200) for taking bribes.18:13 08.06.2017
Deputy governor of Kursk Region detained in bribery caseThe Basmanny District Court of Moscow has detained deputy governor of the Kursk Region Vasily Zubkov charged with taking a bribe until August 4.16:25 07.06.2017
State Duma adopts bill on blacklist of corrupt officialsThe State Duma passed in the third and final reading on Wednesday a bill on creating a nationwide list of officials.12:00 07.06.2017
Moscow court extends detention of ex-FSB officer in bribery caseThe Moscow District Military Court has extended detention of Vlad Novikov, former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), who stands charged with taking a 5-million-ruble bribe (about $88,100 at the current exchange rate) until July 6.12:25 06.06.2017
Vice-governor of Russia’s Vladimir Region charged with briberyVice-governor of the Vladimir Region Yelena Mazanko has been charged with two instances of receiving bribes of large and exceptionally large scale.10:59 06.06.2017
State Duma MP’s aide jailed on charges of mediation in briberyA court has detained a State Duma lawmaker’s assistant Andrey Churkin charged with mediation in bribing ex-governor of Russia’s Chelyabinsk Region Mikhail Yurevich.10:37 02.06.2017
Moscow court detains one more defendant in large-scale bribery caseThe Basmanny District Court of Moscow has detained one more defendant in a criminal case of Dmitry Zakharchenko, Russian anti-corruption official charged with receiving a large-scale bribe.13:41 01.06.2017
Udmurtia’s ex-governor Solovyov pleads guilty to taking bribesFormer head of Russia’s Udmurt Republic Alexander Solovyov, who stands charged with taking over 140 million rubles (about $2.5 mln) in bribes, has pleaded guilty and started cooperating with investigators, a prosecutor said during the hearing in Moscow’s Basmanny District Court on Wednesday.14:51 31.05.2017
State Duma approves blacklist of officials fired for corruptionThe State Duma adopted in the second reading on Wednesday a bill on creating a nationwide list of officials, who had been dismissed because of loss of trust over corruption allegations.18:02 24.05.2017
Ex-regional governor arrested in absentia on corruption chargesThe Sverdlovsk Regional Court issued an arrest warrant for ex-governor of Russia’s Chelyabinsk Region Mikhail Yurevich, who stands charged with taking 26 million rubles ($460,300 at the current exchange rate) in bribes, in absentia.16:37 24.05.2017
Businessman charged with bribing Mari El Republic’s ex-head arrested in absentiaMoscow’s Basmanny District Court has issued an arrest warrant in absentia for Nikolay Krivash, founder of Akashevskaya poultry factory, who stands charged with giving a bribe to Russia’s Mari El Republic Leonid Markelov.10:59 23.05.2017
Russian Supreme Court rules to arrest fugitive ex-judge Baranova in absentiaThe Supreme Court of Russia has ruled to arrest former judge of the Moscow Commercial Court Irina Baranova, suspected of assisting in bribery and large scale fraud, in absentia.16:12 22.05.2017
Russian ex-prosecutor gets 8.5 years in prison for corruptionA court has sentenced Vladimir Zubakin, former prosecutor of the Russian city of Engels in the Saratov Region, to 8.5 years in prison for taking bribes.14:00 18.05.2017
Ex-head of Penitentiary Service’s directorate gets 7 years for taking bribeThe Syktyvkar City Court has sentenced former head of Komi Republic’s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Directorate Alexander Protopopov to 7 years in prison for receiving 625,000 rubles (about $11,000) in bribes.14:55 17.05.2017
Prosecutor seeks 14 years in prison for Russian ex-senator charged with corruptionProsecutor has asked the Ozersk City Court in the Chelyabinsk Region to sentence former member of the Federation Council Konstantin Tsybko charged with taking bribes to 14 years in high-security prison.11:51 16.05.2017
Russian court upholds sentence for Sakhalin investment ex-ministerThe Sakhalin Regional Court has upheld a 3.5-year prison sentence given to Sakhalin’s former minister of investment and foreign ties Yekaterina Kotova for embezzlement of 3.2 million rubles (about $57,100).10:47 16.05.2017
Search of Chelyabinsk Region ex-governor suspected of taking bribes appealedA court ruling to put former governor of Russia’s Chelyabinsk Region Mikhail Yurevich suspected of taking 26 million rubles ($451,600) in bribes on the federal and international wanted list has been appealed.14:59 15.05.2017
Ex-head of Russia’s Mari El Republic Markelov to stay in jailThe Moscow City Court on Wednesday upheld detention of ex-head of Russia’s Mari El Republic Leonid Markelov charged with receiving a large-scale bribe.18:00 10.05.2017