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Attorneys seek to release father of ex-senator from detention due to coronavirus

14:59 06/04/2020 Defense lawyers have filed a motion seeking to release Raul Arashukov, CEO of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz and father of ex-senator Rauf Arashukov, from detention.

Regional high-ranking official suspected of receiving bribes

18:24 03/04/2020 A criminal case has been opened against vice-governor of the Kirov Region Andrey Plitko suspected of receiving bribes.

Self-isolation extended for female employees of Russian Investigative Committee

16:16 03/04/2020 Female employees of the Russian Investigative Committee will stay home as part of the self-isolation regime until April 30, upon the order of the authority’s Chairman Alexander Bastrykin.

Investigators seek to detain three investigations officials on abuse of office charges

11:35 03/04/2020 The 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 Krasovsky as well as senior investigator for especially important cases Alexander Bryantsev are charged with abuse of power.

Wanted ex-judge arrested on bribery allegations

10:43 03/04/2020 A wanted ex-magistrate judge, who had allegedly took bribes for delivering rulings declaring rightsof ownership of property units, was arrested in Russia’s Saratov region.

Ex-head of Saratov Region town sentenced to 9 years for corruption

17:37 01/04/2020 A former head of the Saratov Region’s town of Engels Dmitry Lobanov has received 9 years in a high security penal colony for receiving a property bribe.

Extradited co-owner of ill-fated Kemerovo mall charged with $100k bribery

11:56 01/04/2020 A co-owner of Zimnyaya Vishnya (Winter Cherry) shopping mall that became a site of deadly fire killing 60 people in Russia's Kemerovo in March 2018 has been charged with giving a 7-million-ruble bribe (about $100,000).

Investigators conduct check over fake video about coronavirus restrictions in Moscow

15:39 30/03/2020 Investigators have initiated a check over the online distribution of video containing false information on the restrictive measures against coronavirus in Moscow.

Investigation into alleged leader of Russia’s Aum Shinrikyo cell completed

13:19 26/03/2020 Probe into Mikhail Ustyantsev, an alleged organizer of a Russian cell of Aum Shinrikyo organization prohibited in Russia, has been completed.

Anti-fake news working group created in Russian Investigative Committee

11:53 26/03/2020 A working group on the prevention of dessiminating fake news about coronavirus spread in Russia has been created in the Investigative Committee.

Probe opened into Russia’s regional health official over quarantine breach

17:09 23/03/2020 Investigators opened a probe into the external infection disease chief officer of Russia’s Stavropol Krai Irina Sannikova, who had failed to go under the 14-day coronavirus quarantine after her return from Spain.

Coronavirus prevention working group created in Russian Investigative Committee

16:28 20/03/2020 A working group on the prevention of spread of the coronavirus infection has been created in the Russian Investigative Committee upon the order of its chair Alexander Bastrykin.

Two defendants in deadly mine flooding case get 2.5 years in penal colony settlement

10:59 20/03/2020 Acting director of the Mirny Mining and Processing Division Alexander Kisilichin and former chief engineer of the enterprise Alexander Mann have been sentenced to 2.5 years in penal colony settlement each in a case over flooding of the underground mine Mir in Russia’s Yakutia and death of its employees.

Probe opened into attack against Russian embassy in Ukraine’s Kiev

13:50 18/03/2020 Investigation has been launched after the recent attack against Russian embassy in Ukraine.

Indictment set to be approved against Russian professor accused of student murder

12:25 18/03/2020 A criminal case against the St. Petersburg State University’s history professor Oleg Sokolov, who stands charged with the murder of his postgraduate student Anastasia Yeshchenko, has been forwarded to prosecutors for the indictment to be approved.

Investigation into pilot Yaroshenko kidnapping case resumed in Russia

15:18 17/03/2020 Investigation into 11 employees of the U.S. Department of Justice and 6 citizens of Liberia suspected of kidnapping of Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko has been resumed.

Former Russian military official gets twelvefold fine for taking $3,000 bribe

15:03 13/03/2020 A former chief of a military representative office of the Russian Defense Ministry Alexander Kuzmin has been sentenced to a 2.5-million-ruble (about $35,000) fine for receiving a 200,000-ruble bribe (nearly $3,000).

Construction businessman, his advisor detained on embezzlement allegations

11:43 06/03/2020 A court has detained director of Stroy Group construction company Pavel Babayev and his advisor Pavel Loboda as part of a 3 billion-ruble (about $44.5 million) embezzlement case.

Journalist Golunov ordered to undergo mental examination – attorney

17:23 05/03/2020 The Investigative Committee of Russia has sent journalist Ivan Golunov to a mental examination.

Defendant in Russia’s Primorye Oceanarium embezzlement case gets 12 years in jail

12:12 04/03/2020 Andrey Poplavsky, the former CEO of a state organization established to oversee the implementation of a presidential decree on the construction of the Primorye Oceanarium, has received 12 years in a high-security penal colony for large-scale embezzlement.

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