Investigative Committee

Charges brought against Bank of Moscow subsidiaries management

13:20 15/03/2012 Investigators brought charges against two top managers of the Bank of Moscow subsidiaries and ruled to prosecute former ban's president Andrei Borodin and his deputy Dmitry Akulinin as defendants in the case.

Investigators bring charges against terrorists for killing 37 in airport

15:23 06/03/2012 The Investigative Committee has brought the final charges against four members of a gang responsible for the terrorist attack in Domodedovo Airport in January 2011.

Investigators to probe fake video on presidential election fraud

14:57 01/03/2012 The Investigative Committee has started to look into fake videos depicting acts of fraud in the presidential election on March 4.

Russia refutes allegations of military crimes in South Ossetia in 2008

12:26 24/02/2012 The allegations made by Georgian authorities about crimes committed by Russian servicemen military during the 2008 South Ossetia conflict are false, the Investigative Committee's spokesman Vladimir Markin told journalists on Friday

Moscow region officials take $16k in bribes

18:46 21/02/2012 Former employees of the Federal Service for State Registration, Land Registry and Cartography in the Moscow region accepted about $16,789 in bribes.

Greenfieldbank offices searched in illegal casino ring case

18:02 16/02/2012 Investigators are searching Greefieldbank offices in Moscow to seize documents as part of their investigation into a renowned gambling case in the Moscow Region.

Magnitsky's defense refuses to consider case materials

16:27 09/02/2012 The defense of Hermitage Capital Investment Fund lawyer Sergei Magnitsky does not plan to go to the Investigative Committee to examine the preliminary investigation materials in the case against their deceased client.

Suspect in uranium fraud case found guilty in absentia

17:19 07/02/2012 The court has found former Russian-U.S. Globe Nuclear Services and Supply (GNSS) President Alexander Chernov guilty of large-scale fraud in absentia; Former Nuclear Energy Minister Yevgeny Adamov was involved in the case.

Life News lawyer claims right to publish tapped telephone conversations

10:13 01/02/2012 Life News website lawyer maintains that it has not violated the law by posting eavesdropped telephone conversations of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov because the publication just protected public interest.

Russian investigators head to Poland for ex-prosecutor interrogation

17:20 27/01/2012 A team of Russian investigators will head to Poland to interrogate former Moscow Region prosecutor Alexander Ignatenko in the notorious "casino case".

Investigators initiate 36 criminal cases on violations during State Duma elections

15:47 27/01/2012 Investigative authorities have initiated 36 criminal cases on violations committed during the recent State Duma elections.

Female DNA on Politkovskaya murder weapon insufficient

16:00 26/01/2012 The Investigative Committee believes that the DNA on the gun that killed journalist Anna Politkovskaya is too little evidence to draw conclusions about who was involved in the crime.

Most corruption violations revealed in medicine, education, housing and utilities

13:52 26/01/2012 The largest number of corruption violations in 2011 was revealed in the healthcare, education, housing and utilities sectors, Sergei Ivanov, the chief of staff of the Presidential Executive Office.

Police finish investigating accused in Magnitsky's death

16:30 24/01/2012 Law enforcement agencies have finished investigating a criminal case against the staff of the pretrial detention center who have been held liable for the death of Hermitage Capital fund lawyer Sergei Magnitsky

Prosecutor general proposes to return prosecutors rights

16:11 20/01/2012 Prosecutor General Yury Chaika believes it is necessary to give a number of rights back to prosecutors, including the right to initiate criminal cases.

Investigators may become separate party in legal proceedings

14:20 17/01/2012 Investigative Committee head Alexander Bastrykin has proposed to split investigators from the prosecution party and establish them as a separate party in legal proceedings.

Courts collect over $172 mln from tax evasion cases in 2011 - Investigative Committee

13:33 17/01/2012 Investigative Committee collected over $174.05 million when investigating tax crimes in 2011.

Public procurement crimes cause $219 mln loss to state - Investigative Committee

11:31 17/01/2012 Public procurement crimes caused a loss of more than $221.52 million to the budget in 11 months of 2011.

Former Estonian spy chief charged with organizing Arctic Sea vessel hijacking

14:53 13/01/2012 The Investigative Committee has charged in absentia former Estonian foreign intelligence coordinator, now historian and businessman Eerik-Niiles Kross with organizing the hijacking of an Arctic Sea dry cargo vessel in July 2009.

Russia prepares documents for prosecutor's extradition from Poland

17:17 10/01/2012 The Prosecutor General's Office has requested from the Investigative Committee the documents necessary to extradite former Moscow Regional Deputy Prosecutor General Alexander Ignatenko from Poland.

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