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Justice Ministry unveils bill prohibiting foreigners from monitoring detainees' rights

11:15 15/07/2021 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.

About 2,000 indviduals acquitted by Russian courts in 2020

11:23 21/04/2021 Russian courts acquitted nearly 2,000 people in 2020.

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

11:01 21/04/2021 Russian courts sentenced 37 persons to life imprisonment in 2020.

Six people convicted of Nazism rehabilitation in Russia in 2020

10:25 21/04/2021 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.

Justice Department and Federal Notary Chamber launch online services for judges

17:35 18/01/2021 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.

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

12:59 23/06/2020 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.

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

11:06 23/06/2020 In the last decade the number of Russian teenagers convicted of committing crimes has downed by more than three times.

Treason and espionage caseload lowers – Russian Supreme Court

15:34 20/04/2018 Russian nationals stood trial on treason and espionage charges in 2017 less often than in 2016.

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

16:35 23/08/2017 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.

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

11:48 14/11/2014 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.

US court sentences Armenian Power leader to 32 years

13:13 13/11/2014 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.

НР Russia fined almost $58 million for bribing Russian officials

12:50 12/09/2014 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.

US authorities charge Russian national with hacking

10:22 03/06/2014 The US Justice Department on Monday charged a Russian national, Evgeniy Bogachev, with committing cybercrimes, Reuters reports.

Hewlett-Packard subsidiary to plead guilty to bribing Russian officials

12:45 10/04/2014 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.

CIA misrepresented interrogation program to US govt. - report

16:22 01/04/2014 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.

US Attorney General vows action against drug-death epidemic

13:16 11/03/2014 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.

DOJ challenges journalist's claim to CIA interrogation report

19:16 28/01/2014 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.

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

16:40 14/01/2014 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.

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

17:18 27/12/2013 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.

Major banks face civil mortgage fraud charges in US – report

11:58 18/12/2013 The US Justice Department plans to file civil fraud charges against Citigroup Inc. and Merril Lynch over the sale of botched mortgage securities before the 2008 financial crisis.

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