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Ex-minister prosecuted for illegal limousines purchase

10:04 10/01/2012 A court in North-Eastern Siberia will hear the criminal case of former Yakutian minister of housing and energy Alexander Antonenko charged with an unlawful purchase of three cars using public funds.

Court approves child-care leave denial to father

11:13 28/12/2011 A court has dismissed a lawsuit against an Investigative Committee department which denied child-care leave to its employee while his wife was going to work.

Denial of arrest warrant for Cravers upheld by court

15:18 21/12/2011 The court has upheld on Wednesday the denial of an arrest warrant for U.S. citizens Michael and Nanette Craver on charges of murdering their adopted Russian son.

Alleged murderer of Kuwaiti embassy employee detained in Moscow

12:09 21/12/2011 The police detained on Tuesday in Moscow an individual suspected of murdering the Kuwaiti Embassy secretary which in spring in Moscow.

Court to hear appeal against refusal to issue arrest warrant for Cravers

16:34 20/12/2011 The court will hear on December 21 an appeal against the denial of an arrest warrant for U.S. citizens Michael and Nanette Craver on charges of murdering their adopted Russian-born son.

Investigators receive evidence of adopted Russian-born child's murder in USA

13:20 19/12/2011 Investigators have managed to obtain confirmation that a Russian-born child was brutally murdered by his foster father in the United States in 2005.

Supreme Court postpones appeal in slave trade case

12:09 16/12/2011 The Supreme Court's Military Board has adjourned until December 19 its hearing of an appeal against the court judgment in the human trafficking case, defense counsel of the key defendant, Main Intelligence Directorate Lt. Col. Dmitry Strykanov.

Magnitsky mother's appeal against investigation dismissed

14:42 08/12/2011 The court has upheld the decision to separate the criminal case against doctors working at a Moscow pretrial detention center from the death case of Hermitage Capital fund lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.

High-ranking customs official detained for bribery

10:42 07/12/2011 First deputy head of a Federal Customs Service's department Evgeny Malyarov was detained in Moscow on the suspicion of receiving a large bribe, Vladimir Markin.

Russia reopens 2005 case of Russian child murder in United States

10:46 06/12/2011 The Investigative Committee has launched a criminal case over the murder of Russian boy Ilya Kargyntsev adopted in the United States in 2005.

Lugovoi poisoned at meeting with Litvinenko in 2006 - Investigative Committee

14:41 30/11/2011 Investigators have uncovered that businessman Andrei Lugovoi was poisoned with polonium-210 while communicating with former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko in London in October-November 2006.

Russia wants to deprive Cravers of parental rights to Russian girl

13:46 29/11/2011 Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigative Committee, requested leading Russian human rights activists Mikhail Fedotov and Vladimir Lukin to assist in the investigation of the murder of seven-year-old Russian boy in the United States.

Russian court refuses to issue arrest warrant for Nanette Craver

17:25 28/11/2011 A Moscow district court refused on Monday to issue in absentia an arrest warrant for U.S. citizen Nanette Craver on charges of murdering her adopted son Vanya Skorobogatov.

Prosecutor General's Office deems case against Cravers in Russia unlawful

16:50 28/11/2011 The Prosecutor General's Office has deemed it unlawful to open a criminal case in Russia against Michael and Nanette Craver and to place them on the international wanted list. The Cravers earlier adopted a boy from the country, who later died of a serious head wound in a U.S. hospital.

Russia to seek conviction of U.S. couple accused of killing their adopted Russian child

16:11 23/11/2011 The Investigative Committee is determined to seek the arrest of Michael and Nanette Craver, who are accused of murdering their adopted son from Russia.

Russia places U.S. couple charged with child's murder on international wanted list

17:25 21/11/2011 The Investigative Committee has ordered on Monday to prosecute Michael and Nanette Craver for murdering their adopted son from Russia.

Famous Chechen poet murdered in Moscow

10:33 16/11/2011 Investigators believe that Chechen poet Ruslan Akhtakhanov was murdered by a contract killer, Vladimir Markin, the official spokesperson for the Investigative Committee.

Investigation of doctors responsible for Magnitsky's death finished

13:52 01/11/2011 Investigators initiated a separate trial in the case of two doctors accused of the death of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in a pre-trial detention center and announced the preliminary investigation is finished.

Court mitigates punishment for convict in Pension Fund theft case

17:00 27/10/2011 The court has commuted the punishment for a former Kuban bank employee sentenced to six years in prison for stealing $41 million from the Pension Fund.

Remains of Romanov Family genuine - Investigative Committee

13:23 27/10/2011 The Investigative Committee has found that the remains of the royal Romanov Family, murdered in Yekaterinburg in 1918 and later buried in the Peter and Paul Fortress in St.Petersburg are genuine.

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