Russian woman fined $400 for fake coronavirus newsA court in Russia’s Chelyabinsk fined a local woman, who had published false information about the number of coronavirus positive people on her VKontakte page, 30,000 rubles ($400).17:32 03.04.2020
Investigators seek to detain three investigations officials on abuse of office chargesThe Investigative Committee has filed a motion with Moscow’s Basmanny District Court seeking to place three senior investigations official in detention until June 1. Two deputy chiefs of the Interior Ministry’s Investigations Department Alexander Biryukov and Alexander Krakovsky as well as senior investigator for especially important cases Alexander Bryantsev are charged with abuse of power.11:35 03.04.2020
Russian citizen fined for fake coronavirus news distributionA court has fined a resident of Magnitogorsk, a city in the Chelyabinsk Region, 30,000 rubles (about $400) for distributing fake information on the coronavirus situation.10:21 01.04.2020
Russia’s Interior Ministry to pay $20,000 to mother of police torture victimThe Supreme Court of Russia’s Republic of Ingushetia on Thursday ordered the Interior Ministry to pay Lemka Doliyeva, whose son had died after being beaten by police officers, 1.5 million rubles (about $20,000) in compensation.17:52 12.03.2020
St. Petersburg dweller put under house arrest on suspicion of fake carsharing account saleA court in St. Petersburg on Thursday placed a local resident Roman Amelin suspected of selling fake accounts for carsharing users under house arrest.17:36 12.03.2020
Former regional police official sentenced to 5 years for waste of nearly $3 mlnEx-chief of the Interior Ministry’s Directorate for the Kamchatka Krai Alexander Sidorenko has received 5 years behind bars for wastage of budget funds worth over 200 million rubles (about $3 million).13:18 28.02.2020
Russian Interior Ministry joined to Moscow police claim against opposition figuresMoscow’s Simonovsky District Court on Thursday ordered that the Russian Interior Ministry be joined as a third party to a 6-million-ruble (over $90,000) lawsuit filed by the Moscow police directorate against organizers of the summer August 3 rally Lyubov Sobol and Georgy Alburov.15:24 27.02.2020
Appeals court upholds dismissal of $9.6 mln claim against Interior MinistryThe Ninth Commercial Court of Appeals has upheld the dismissal of a petition of Tsentralnoye Obshchestvo company, (Tsentralnoye Strakhovoye Obshchestovo prior to August 9, 2019), the license of which was withdrawn and which is in the process of bankruptcy, seeking to claim 609 million rubles ($9.6 million) from the Interior Ministry.11:27 13.02.2020
Two human rights advocates join Moscow police public councilMembers of the Presidential Council for Human Rights Andrey Babushkin and Igor Borisov have joined the Public Council of the Interior Ministry’s Moscow Main Directorate for 2020 – 2023.16:09 03.02.2020
Lawsuit against face recognition system filed with Moscow courtA lawsuit against the Moscow Information Technologies Department and the city Directorate of Internal Affairs over illegality of the face recognition system use has been filed with the Tverskoy District Court.16:47 24.01.2020
Hearing of police claim against illegal Moscow rallies organizers to resume in FebruaryMoscow’s Simonovsky District Court will continue to hear a 4.3-million-ruble lawsuit filed by the Interior Ministry’s Moscow Main Directorate against organizers of unauthorized summer rallies on February 13.18:06 23.01.2020
Number of crimes committed by minors drops one third over 5 years - KuznetsovaThe number of crimes committed by or in complicity with underage persons has decreased by 27% over five years, Russia’s child rights commissioner Anna Kuznetsova states on Wednesday citing Interior Ministry statistics.16:17 22.01.2020
Two men charged with police investigator murder go on trialTwo defendants in a case over the murder of the Interior Ministry Transport Department’s major case investigator, police lieutenant colonel Yevgeniya Shishkina, will stand trial.11:25 22.01.2020
Regional top police officer suspected of bribetakingA head of the Interior Ministry’s Komi Republic Directorate has been arrested on suspicion of receiving a bribe on a major scale, according to the Investigative Committee’s press service.10:25 17.01.2020
Probe into police investigator murder case completedInvestigators have completed their probe into the murder of the Interior Ministry Transport Department’s major case investigator, police lieutenant colonel Yevgeniya Shishkina.12:21 16.01.2020
Former Altai anti-corruption official gets 4 years for taking over $200k in bribesEx-chief of the anti-corruption department of the Interior Ministry’s Altai Krai Main Directorate Vadim Nadvotsky has been sentenced to 4 years in penal colony for receiving a 12.9 million-ruble bribe (over $200,000).13:44 09.12.2019
Regional anti-corruption official gets 10 years behind bars for briberyA court in Russia’s city of Arkhangelsk has sentenced deputy chief of the regional anti-corruption directorate of the Interior Ministry Nikolay Grinkov to 10 years in high-security prison for receiving a 3 million-ruble bribe (about $50,000).16:57 26.11.2019
Police $70k claim against organizers of illegal Moscow opposition rallies set for DecemberMoscow’s Simonovsky District Court will begin hearing on merits of a lawsuit filed by the Interior Ministry’s Moscow Main Directorate against organizers of unauthorized summer rallies, including opposition figures Alexey Navalny and Ilya Yashin, on December 4.11:58 25.11.2019
Alleged killer of Ingushetia’s anti-extremism official arrested in absentiaMoscow’s Basmanny District Court has issued an arrest warrant in absentia for Kureyshi Kartoyev, an alleged murderer of the chief of Ingushetia Republic’s Centre for Combating Extremism of the Interior Ministry Ibragim Eldzharkiyev.12:35 18.11.2019
Russian footballers’ $1.7 mln claim against Interior Ministry dismissedMoscow’s Zamoskvoretsky District Court has dismissed a lawsuit of four ex-national football team players demanding over 109 million rubles ($1.7 million) from the Interior Ministry.11:39 14.11.2019