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Commercial court suspends $4 bln claim against ex-Transaero CEO

12:26 21/08/2019 The Commercial Court of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region has suspended a 249-billion-ruble lawsuit (nearly $4 billion) against the former CEO of Transaero air carrier Alexander Burdin.

Attackers of long-haul truckers sentenced to prison in St. Petersburg

16:17 20/08/2019 Gang members, who had attacked long-haul truckers, were convicted of robbery and causing damage totaling around 500 million rubles ($7,500) to transporters.

Ex-chairman of Russian youth association gets 2.5 years for embezzlement

14:57 16/08/2019 The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced ex-chairman of the St. Petersburg office of Russia’s Union of Youth Dmitry Lyadov to 2.5 years in prison for embezzlement.

Ex-managers of Russian bank to stand trial on $25.5 mln embezzlement charges

17:00 15/08/2019 A 1.7-billion-ruble ($25.5 million) embezzlement case against managers of Sovetsky bank has reached the Vyborg District Court of St. Petersburg for hearing.

Car owner sentenced to prison for repeated drunken driving

17:27 13/08/2019 A driver, who had been repeatedly caught for drunk driving, was sentenced to 8 months in a high-security penal colony, the St. Petersburg prosecutor’s office told RAPSI on Tuesday.

St. Petersburg detention center to be checked after detainees beating reports

18:00 09/08/2019 Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office would check the reports of alleged beating of detainees in the St. Petersburg detention center, known as Kresty-2.

Former St. Petersburg official faces trial on abuse of office charges

13:48 09/08/2019 A court in St. Petersburg will consider a case against ex-city governor administration official charged with abuse of office.

Website selling combat weapon in Russia blocked

17:15 08/08/2019 A website illegally selling combat weapon has been blocked by the Russian communications agency Roskomnadzor following a relevant court order.

St. Petersburg emergencies official suspected of receiving $32k bribe

18:23 26/07/2019 Investigators have opened a criminal case against a chief of Russia’s Emergencies Ministry’s St. Petersburg Main Department suspected of extorting a 2-million-ruble bribe ($32,000).

Four men convicted of $1 mln Arctic shelf limit survey embezzlement

15:00 25/07/2019 The Leningrad District Military Court convicted four defendants of embezzling 70 million rubles ($1 million) allocated for surveying shelf limits in the Arctic Ocean.

Ex-rector of St. Petersburg Agrarian University to stand embezzlement trial

14:47 15/07/2019 Investigation into the former rector of the St. Petersburg Agrarian University Victor Yefimov charged with embezzling of 28.6 million rubles (over $450,000) has been completed.

Former vice-governor of St. Petersburg goes on trial on bribery charges

13:48 11/07/2019 A case against the former vice-governor of St. Petersburg Marat Oganesyan, accused of fraudulently embezzling funds allocated for the construction of the city’s Arena football stadium and bribery, has reached court.

St. Petersburg MPs propose to punish teens of 14 for cruelty to animals

09:50 11/07/2019 The St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly has submitted a bill lowering the age of criminal responsibility for animal abuse from 16 to 14 years to the lower house of Russian parliament.

Alleged Church of Scientology adherent gets 6 years for $2.5 mln embezzlement

10:59 08/07/2019 Alleged Church of Scientology adherent and head of a consumer society Maria Sidorova has been sentenced to 6 years in jail for embezzling 155.5 million rubles (nearly $2.5 million) from shareholders of 9 housing associations.

Transaero’s asset inventory procedure extended for 6 months

10:47 05/07/2019 The Commercial Court of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region has extended asset inventory of Transaero air carrier for 6 months upon a petition of the airline’s bankruptcy supervisor of Transaero airline Alexey Belokopyt.

One more Russian awarded compensation for illegal prosecution for extremism

14:14 03/07/2019 A court in St. Petersburg has ordered the Finance Ministry to pay activist Dina Garina 30,000 rubles (nearly $500) in compensation for moral harm caused by unjustified prosecution for extremism.

Former Russian penitentiary official sentenced to 3.5 years for bribery

16:41 20/06/2019 The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg on Thursday found ex-deputy director of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Nikolay Barinov guilty of taking about 110 million rubles (about $2 million) in bribes during a detention center construction and sentenced him to 3.5 years in high security prison.

Russian woman gets 13 years in prison for drug trafficking

15:11 14/06/2019 A court in St. Petersburg has sentenced local resident Natalya Solovyeva to 13 years behind bars for smuggling drugs and attempt to illegally sell them.

Leningrad Region ombudsman seeks to cease convicts’ transfers to other regions

13:25 07/06/2019 Ombudsman of the Leningrad Region Sergey Shabanov has asked the Federal Penitentiary Service’s director Gennady Kornienko to give up on the practice of transfer of convicts, whose sentence has not taken effect, to detention centers in other regions.

Russian detention center’s contractor appeals ruling in dispute with penitentiary service

14:03 05/06/2019 The General Construction Corporation, a principal construction contractor of the detention center, known as Kresty-2, has filed an application with the Russian Supreme Court seeking reconsideration of a ruling in its dispute with the Federal Penitentiary Service’s Directorate for St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region.

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