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Criminal case of St. Petersburg Church of Scientology leaders reaches court

14:16 12/02/2020 The criminal case over illegal business operations and extremism the defendants in which are leaders of the Church of Scientology of St. Petersburg has reached court.

St. Petersburg businessman gains rehabilitation over acquittal of gang organization

15:40 06/02/2020 CEO of Petropolis company Mark Bronovsky convicted of a tax refund fraud has sued out a right to rehabilitation after acquittal of creating an organized criminal network.

Ex-Leningrad Region official’s 9-year jail term for bribery mitigated to suspended term

13:22 06/02/2020 The St. Petersburg City Court replaced a 9-year prison term given to ex-head of a district in the Leningrad Region Petr Levin for bribery with a suspended sentence.

Ex-CEO of detention center construction contractor faces abuse of office trial

12:46 05/02/2020 An abuse of office case against Viktor Kudrin, ex-CEO of a contractor of the construction of Kresty, the largest detention center in Europe, has been forwarded to the Kolpinsky District Court of St. Petersburg for consideration.

Family ordered to return $16.2 mln debt of late IT entrepreneur to U.S. businessman

18:04 04/02/2020 The Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg has ordered a widow and a son of the late owner of NovIT Pro IT company Valery Pshenichny, to pay a $16.2 million debt to the U.S. businessman Marc Nickinson.

Transaero bankruptcy trustee seeks to bring ex-airline CEO to subsidiary liability

10:48 03/02/2020 A bankruptcy receiver of Transaero air carrier has filed an application seeking to bring a former CEO of the company Alexander Burdin to subsidiary liability on the airline’s obligations, according to the records of the Commercial Court of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region.

Suspended sentence given to 29 people guilty of BAD fraud

13:24 31/01/2020 The Moskovsky Ditrict Court of St. Petersburg gave suspended terms ranging from 1 to 7 years to 29 people guilty of fraudulent biologically active dietary supplement (BAD) sale to senior citizens under the guise of medicine.

Former Russian penitentiary official’s sentence for graft comes into force

18:00 15/01/2020 The St. Petersburg City Court on Wednesday dismissed an appeal filed by ex-deputy director of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Nikolay Barinov against a 3.5-year prison sentence given to him for taking about 110 million rubles (about $2 million) in bribes during a detention center construction.

Pilot, businessman convicted of organizing illegal parachute jumping activities

16:59 09/01/2020 A court in the Leningrad Region has given a pilot and a businessman a 3-year suspended sentence each for organizing illegal parachute jumping.

Two men detained on charges of plotting New Year terrorist attack in St. Petersburg

11:37 31/12/2019 Two Russian citizens charged with plotting a New Year terrorist attack in St. Petersburg have been placed in detention.

Defendants in case over overwork premiums to construction officials sentenced

12:35 30/12/2019 The defendants in a case over incentive rewards paid to functionaries responsible for building works in St. Petersburg by subway construction contractors had been passed suspended sentences.

Contractors of Vostochny Cosmodrome construction convicted of $1.6 mln embezzlement

17:53 27/12/2019 Several top managers of Transengineering company, a construction contractor of Vostochny Cosmodrome facilities, have been sentenced to prison for embezzlement of nearly 100 million rubles ($1.6 million). However, the Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg has released the defendants from punishment as they had served the imposed sentence in detention.

Arrest warrant upheld for son of late Russian IT businessman in embezzlement case

16:58 27/12/2019 The St. Petersburg City Court has upheld arrest of Denis Pshenichny, the son of the late owner of NovIT Pro IT company Valery Pshenichny, in absentia as part of an embezzlement case.

Bankruptcy proceedings against Baltiyskiy Bank’s ex-president extended once more

11:38 26/12/2019 The Commercial Court of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region has extended the asset sale procedure against ex-president of the Baltiyskiy Bank Oleg Shigayev, who stands charged with the 3-billion-ruble ($55 million) embezzlement, for six months.

Detention of history professor in student murder case extended until April

13:05 24/12/2019 Moscow’s Basmanny District Court on Tuesday prolonged detention of Oleg Sokolov, the St. Petersburg State University’s history professor, who stands charged with the murder of his postgraduate student Anastasia Yeshchenko, until April 9.

Ex-rector of St. Petersburg Agrarian University gets 5 years for $450k embezzlement

17:00 23/12/2019 The former rector of the St. Petersburg Agrarian University Victor Yefimov on Monday was found guilty of embezzling of 28.6 million rubles (over $450,000) and sentenced to 5 years in a penal colony.

Moscow court to consider extension of history professor’s detention in student murder case

12:49 23/12/2019 Investigators seek to extend detention of Oleg Sokolov, the St. Petersburg State University’s history professor, who stands charged with the murder of his postgraduate student Anastasia Yeshchenko.

Jury selection process started in murder case against ex-penitentiary official

10:25 20/12/2019 Jury selection process has been started in a criminal case against ex-deputy chief of the Federal Penitentiary Service’s (FSIN) St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region directorate Sergey Moiseyenko, who stands charged with organization of assassination against his subordinate.

St. Petersburg court upholds detention of history professor accused of student murder

13:49 16/12/2019 The St. Petersburg City Court on Monday upheld detention of Oleg Sokolov, the St. Petersburg State University’s history professor, who stands charged with the murder of his postgraduate student Anastasia Yeshchenko.

Ex-police officer accused of hooliganism for beating 81-year old man

18:08 12/12/2019 A former road police officer, who had beaten an 81-year old man, was charged with hooliganism.

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