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Investigation into $30K embezzlement case against Moscow lawmaker completed

Investigators have completed probe into the Moscow City Duma lawmaker Oleg Sheremetyev charged with embezzling over 2 million rubles (about $30,000) of budget funds.

09:57 24.09.2020

Alleged leaders of religious sect arrested in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk Region

Three alleged religious sect leaders have been arrested in the Krasnoyarsk Krai.

12:29 22.09.2020

Investigative Committee head orders check of ex-lawyer Pashayev’s actions amid fraud reports

Chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin has ordered a pre-investigation check to be conducted over information on allegedly illegal actions by Elman Pashayev, ex-defense lawyer for actor Mikhail Efremov.

10:57 22.09.2020

Krasnoyarsk businessman Bykov suspected of instigation to one more murder

Investigators check information on alleged involvement of businessman Anatoly Bykov in instigation to the murder of vice-president of the Krasnoyarsk Region Boxing Federation Andrey Grabovsky.

10:55 21.09.2020

Russia’s Investigative Committee opens case over discovery of mass WW2 grave

A criminal case was opened by investigators after a mass grave of Soviet citizens murdered during the World War II had been discovered in the Leningrad Region.

13:01 17.09.2020

Investigators conduct pre-investigation probe into death of nationalist Martsinkevich

Investigators conduct a pre-investigation probe into the death of the leader of the Restruct nationalist movement Maxim Martsinkevich in a Chelyabinsk detention center.

14:10 16.09.2020

Bribery probe into co-owner of ill-fated Kemerovo mall completed

Investigation into 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 was completed.

17:52 15.09.2020

Leningrad Region official suspected of $9 mln embezzlement

Alexander Boluchevsky, Chairman of the finance committee of the Leningrad Region’s Vyborg district administration, has been arrested on suspicion of stealing 700 million rubles (over $9 million).

14:16 14.09.2020

Probe into ex-Norilsk Mayor accused of negligence over fuel spillage disaster completed

Investigation into the former Mayor of Norilsk, a city in the Krasnoyarsk Krai, Rinat Akhmetchin charged with negligence over the fuel spillage disaster in the region has been completed.

16:26 09.09.2020

Russia’s Deputy Minister of Energy charged with $8 mln embezzlement

Deputy Minister of Energy Anatoly Tikhonov has been charged with embezzling over 603 million rubles ($8 million) from the Russian Energy Agency.

14:31 09.09.2020

Final double murder organization charges brought against businessman Bykov

Investigators have brought final charges against Krasnoyarsk businessman Anatoly Bykov as part of a case over double homicide masterminding.

10:31 03.09.2020

Russian man sentenced to community service for rehabilitation of Nazism

A resident of Perm Daniil Simanov was sentenced to 200 hours of community service for publishing a photo of Andrey Vlasov, a Russian Red Army General, who had defected to Nazi Germany after being captured during World War II, on the website of the Immortal Regiment movement.

15:10 01.09.2020

Russia’s Justice Ministry drafts bill on dismissal procedure for investigators

The Russian Justice Ministry works on a bill setting forth procedures governing dismissals and appointments of the Investigative Committee officers.

17:06 31.08.2020

Defense lawyers of actor Efremov run to investigators and prosecutors over threats

Defense team of actor Efremov involved in a fatal road traffic accident complained of threats and pressure from unidentified persons to Russia’s Investigative Committee and Prosecutor General’s Office, attorney Elman Pashayev told RAPSI on Tuesday.

13:04 25.08.2020

Krasnoyarsk businessman suspected of masterminding one more murder

Investigators have opened one more murder case against Krasnoyarsk businessman Anatoly Bykov.

10:39 25.08.2020

Investigators’ decision to open abuse of office case against Bashkir bar chamber head invalidated

A court in Ufa, the capital of Russia’s Republic of Bashkiria, on Monday invalidated an investigators’ order to open a criminal case over abuse of office against a former president of the Republican Bar Chamber Bulat Yumadilov.

16:16 24.08.2020

Investigation launched into Voronezh Region lawyer on fraud allegations

A probe has been launched in the Voronezh Region into a local attorney over alleged fraud.

14:49 24.08.2020

Investigators seek house arrest for Moscow City Duma lawmaker in $30K embezzlement case

Investigators have filed a petition to put the Moscow City Duma lawmaker Oleg Sheremetyev under house arrest until October 18 as part of a case over embezzlement of more than 2 million rubles (about $30,000) of budget funds.

11:57 21.08.2020

Moscow City Duma lawmaker suspected of $30,000 embezzlement

A criminal case has been opened against the Moscow City Duma lawmaker Oleg Sheremetyev suspected of embezzling over 2 million rubles (about $30,000) of budget funds.

10:32 20.08.2020

Investigators severe new case over drug planting on journalist Golunov

Russia’s Investigative Committee has severed a case against unidentified individuals allegedly involved in the drug planting on journalist Ivan Golunov from other defendants.

10:53 17.08.2020