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Russian Economy ex-minister Ulyukayev finishes reading case papers
10:24 13/07/2017
Russian Economy ex-minister Alexey Ulyukayev, who stands charged with extorting a $2 million bribe, has finished reading the case materials.
Sheremetyevo Airport Ex-Customs investigator gets 15 years in prison for extorting bribes
16:03 12/04/2017
Former Sheremetyevo Airport Customs investigator Dmitry Alekseyev has been sentenced to 15 years in prison and a 500-million-ruble fine ($8.8 million) for extortion of bribes and theft.
Supreme Court upholds sentence for detention center ex-officer in state disclosure case
11:14 03/03/2017
The Supreme Court of Russia has upheld the sentence for ex-employee of the notorious Matrosskaya Tishina pretrial detention center, Pavel Petran, who was found guilty of disclosure of state secrets.
Ex-employee of notorious Russian detention center sentenced for state secret disclosure
11:55 27/02/2017
The Moscow City Court has sentenced former employee of the notorious Matrosskaya Tishina pretrial detention center, Pavel Petran, to 1.5 years in penal colony for disclosure of state secrets.
Ex-Economy Minister Ulyukayev to stay under house arrest until mid-April
10:50 30/01/2017
The Moscow City Court has upheld a lower court’s ruling to extend the house arrest of ex-Russian Economy Minister Alexey Ulyukayev, who stands charged with extorting a $2 million bribe, until April 15.
Russian ex-Economy Minister Ulyukayev appeals his house arrest
12:05 18/11/2016
Russian Economy ex-Minister Alexey Ulyukayev who stands charged with extorting an especially large bribe has appealed his house arrest.
Vice-governor of Kuzbass Danilchenko placed under house arrest
11:23 18/11/2016
The Central District Court of Novosibirsk granted a motion filed by investigators and placed Alexander Danilchenko, vice-governor of the Kemerovo Region.
Russian Economy Minister Ulyukayev pleads not guilty to taking bribe
17:45 15/11/2016
Russian Economy Minister Alexey Ulyukayev on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to receiving an especially large bribe.
Russian Economy Minister Ulyukayev charged with bribery
13:57 15/11/2016
Russian Economy Minister Alexey Ulyukayev was officially charged with bribery conducted in especially large amount and with the use of extortion.
Russian regional top officials suspected of $15.3 mln extortion
17:42 14/11/2016
Several top officials of the Kuznetsk Basin (Kuzbass), located in the south of western Siberia, are suspected of stock extortion amounted to 1 billion rubles ($15.3 million).
NYC authorities demand $100 mln bail for Russian woman charged with extortion
10:51 14/10/2016
New York City Department of Correction has demanded an extraordinary large bail of $100,000,000 for release of Svetlana Travis (Zakharova), a Russian citizen who is charged with attempted extortion from New York’s ex-governor Eliot Spitzer.
New York court sets $1 million bail for Russian woman charged with extortion
10:55 12/10/2016
A court in New York has set a $1,000,000 bail for Svetlana Travis (Zakharova), a Russian citizen who is charged with attempted extortion from New York’s ex-governor Eliot Spitzer.
U.S. authorities bust Russian woman for alleged extortion from ex-governor – report
10:55 11/10/2016
The United States authorities have arrested Svetlana Travis, a Russian woman who has earlier accused New York’s ex-governor Eliot Spitzer of attacking her, for attempted extortion.
Former head of Probusinessbank complains about being pressured in US
18:58 20/05/2016
Sergey Leontiev, the former president of Russian bank OAO Probusinessbank, filed a complaint against businessman Alexander Varshavsky accusing him of using harassment, intimidation in an effort to extract $83 million.
Russian charged in bribery case slams US authorities for loosing key witness
13:55 16/03/2015
Russian national Vadim Mikerin implicated in a criminal case over an uranium supply contract filed a motion to dismiss the indictment accusing US authorities of an unjustified delay which resulted in loosing key witness.
Criminals behind the attack on Russian MP sentenced to long prison terms
15:20 10/03/2015
Moscow’s Dorogomilovsky District Court has sentenced four men convicted of beating and extorting money and property from Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Roman Khudyakov to prison terms ranging from eight to nine and a half years.
US court sentences Armenian Power leader to 32 years
13:13 13/11/2014
A court in California sentenced Mher Darbinyan, one of the leaders of the gang American Power, to 32 years in prison for conspiracy including extortion, bank fraud and bank card skimming schemes, the US Department of Justice states in a press release.
US Attorney General’s Office charges Russian atomic businessman Mikerin
11:16 13/11/2014
The US Attorney General’s Office has indicted Russian businessman Vadim Mikerin on charges of accepting kickbacks over uranium deals between Russia and the US.
Russian lawmaker's aide sentenced to prison for extortion
13:02 15/07/2014
The Khoroshevsky District Court in Moscow has sentenced Alexei Shirikhin, an aide to a State Duma lawmaker, to 5.5 years in prison in a 100,000 rubles ($2,915) extortion case, the court’s press secretary, Olga Litsareva, told RAPSI on Tuesday.
Former director of EBRD bank gets 5-year suspended sentence
15:44 16/06/2014
The Simonovsky District Court of Moscow on Monday handed down a five-year suspended sentence with a five-year probation period to Yelena Kotova, Russian former top representative at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) who has been charged with seeking a bribe of $1.4 million, RAPSI reports from the courtroom.
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