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Five convicted of Nazism rehabilitation in Russia in first half of 2021

Five individuals were convicted of the rehabilitation of Nazism in Russia in the first six months of 2021, according to the official statistics of the Supreme Court’s Justice Department.

10:56 21.10.2021

Justice Ministry unveils bill prohibiting foreigners from monitoring detainees' rights

Russia's Justice Ministry has introduced legislation prohibiting foreign citizens as well as lawyers and civil servants from becoming members of public monitoring commissions that monitor detainees' rights.

11:15 15.07.2021

About 2,000 indviduals acquitted by Russian courts in 2020

Russian courts acquitted nearly 2,000 people in 2020.

11:23 21.04.2021

Thirty seven people sentenced to life in prison in Russia last year

Russian courts sentenced 37 persons to life imprisonment in 2020.

11:01 21.04.2021

Six people convicted of Nazism rehabilitation in Russia in 2020

Six people were convicted of whitewashing Nazism in the Russian Federation last year, according by the official statistics presented by the Supreme Court’s Justice Department.

10:25 21.04.2021

Justice Department and Federal Notary Chamber launch online services for judges

The Justice Department at Russia’s Supreme Court informs RAPSI that it has notified federal courts of general jurisdiction and Judicial Department’s regional offices that they have available a technical capability for judges to obtain data on inheritance cases and send requests to notaries via an electronic service.

17:35 18.01.2021

Number of convicts cut in half in Russia in last 20 years – statistics

The number of convicts whose sentences had come into effect reduced nearly by 50% in the Russian Federation in the last 20 years, according to the official statistics of the Supreme Court’s Justice Department.

12:59 23.06.2020

Number of convicted teenagers reduces in Russia more than triple in 10 years

In the last decade the number of Russian teenagers convicted of committing crimes has downed by more than three times.

11:06 23.06.2020

Treason and espionage caseload lowers – Russian Supreme Court

Russian nationals stood trial on treason and espionage charges in 2017 less often than in 2016.

15:34 20.04.2018

US seeks $7 mln forfeiture from company with alleged ties to Russian oil firm

The United States is seeking forfeiture of $7 million from Singapore-based Velmur Management Pte. Ltd. for alleged ties with JSC Independent Petroleum Company, or IPC, sanctioned for providing petroleum products to North Korea.

16:35 23.08.2017

Russian national to be sentenced in SpyEye malware case in March 2015

US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia will pass sentence on Russian national Aleksandr Panin also known as “Gribodemon” and “Harderman” for wire and bank fraud on March 5, 2015.

11:48 14.11.2014

US court sentences Armenian Power leader to 32 years

A court in California sentenced Mher Darbinyan, one of the leaders of the gang American Power, to 32 years in prison for conspiracy including extortion, bank fraud and bank card skimming schemes, the US Department of Justice states in a press release.

13:13 13.11.2014

НР Russia fined almost $58 million for bribing Russian officials

A court in the US has slapped a $58.7-million fine on HP Russia, a subsidiary of the Hewlett-Packard Company, which pleaded guilty to violating the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the statement of the US Department of Justice reads.

12:50 12.09.2014

US authorities charge Russian national with hacking

The US Justice Department on Monday charged a Russian national, Evgeniy Bogachev, with committing cybercrimes, Reuters reports.

10:22 03.06.2014

Hewlett-Packard subsidiary to plead guilty to bribing Russian officials

Hewlett-Packard and its subsidiaries will pay over $108 million after agreeing to plead guilty to foreign bribery charges, including in connection with a large-scale 1999 contract with Russia’s federal prosecutors’ office, the US Department of Justice announced Wednesday.

12:45 10.04.2014

CIA misrepresented interrogation program to US govt. - report

The US Senate Intelligence Committee concluded in a recent report that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) misled officials about its former interrogation program for years, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

16:22 01.04.2014

US Attorney General vows action against drug-death epidemic

Following the high-profile death of US actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, US Attorney General Eric Holder vowed in a speech Monday to combat the “urgent public health crisis” of heroin and prescription drug overdose deaths with a mix of enforcement and treatment tactics.

13:16 11.03.2014

DOJ challenges journalist's claim to CIA interrogation report

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has moved to dismiss a case arising from investigative journalist Jason Leopold efforts to obtain documents from a congressional oversight report of the US Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) detention and interrogation program.

19:16 28.01.2014

US allocates over $8.3 million to support Boston Marathon bombing victims

US Attorney General Eric Holder announced Tuesday that $8,355,648 would be allocated to organizations directly supporting victims, witnesses, and first responders present at the scene of the Boston Marathon bombing and effected by its aftermath.

16:40 14.01.2014

Texan man charged with federal hate crime over race-motivated “knockout game”

A Texan man was charged this week with a federal hate crime after having punched an elderly African American man in the head and breaking his jaw in an apparent manifestation of the “knockout game” phenomenon, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday.

17:18 27.12.2013