Trial & Litigation

Top manager of major real estate developer put in detention on embezzlement allegations

Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court on Friday ordered detention of the regional development director of major real estate developer Samolet Alexander Lefel as part of a large-scale embezzlement case.

18:22 08.10.2021

Lack of awareness on part of minors of moral harm caused to them still remains harm suffered

The Second Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction has agreed that the compensation of nonpecuniary harm caused to the children, who lost their father in a plane crash, needs to be increased. The lack of awareness of the moral harm caused to them does not mean that there was no such harm of it was insignificant.

15:56 08.10.2021

Booking.com files appeal in dispute with Russian antimonopoly watchdog

Booking.com B.V. filed an appeal against the decision of the Moscow Commercial Court saying the company abused its market dominance by imposing unfavorable terms of contracts on Russian hotels as stated by the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS).

12:07 08.10.2021

Moscow court to hear appeal against detention of Sberbank vice-president case defendant

The Moscow City Court has set October 20 as the date for an appeal filed against detention of one of the defendants in the embezzlement case involving former Deputy Education Minister and Sberbank vice-president Marina Rakova.

10:26 08.10.2021

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Russian state depository challenges sanctions in European Court of Justice

Russia’s National Settlement Depository has filed a lawsuit at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg to overturn European Union sanctions imposed on it, the NSD said on Friday.

14:57 12.08.2022

Three detained over Promsvyazbank embezzlement allegations

A Moscow court ordered media technology expert Olga Arkharova, PR specialist Inna Churilova and journalist Alexandra Bayazitova to be kept in custody until October 7 over alleged extortion from Promsvyazbank.

11:35 11.08.2022

Ex-St. Petersburg lawmaker sentenced to 9 years in prison on bribery charges

Roman Koval, a former lawmaker of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, was sentenced to 9 years in prison for large-scale corruption.

15:18 11.08.2022