Russian lawyer gets 1.5-year suspended term for bribing bailiffMoscow’s Izmailovsky District Court passed a 1.5-year suspended sentence on lawyer Alexander Maslov for giving a 50,000-ruble (about $700 at the current exchange rate) bribe to a court bailiff.14:09 07.09.2020
Russia’s State Duma lawmaker faces trial on bribery chargesIndictment has been approved against State Duma lawmaker Vadim Belousov and his alleged accomplice Margarita Butakova as part of a 3.2-billion-ruble (about $45 million at the current exchange rate) bribery case.10:50 28.08.2020
Former Mayor of Russia’s Chelyabinsk faces bribery trialEx-Mayor of Russia’s Chelyabinsk Yevgeny Teftelev will stand trial in a local court on bribe taking charges.11:49 27.08.2020
Detention of Togliattikhimbank head Popov extended for three monthsThe Moscow City Court has extended the period of detention of the former chairperson of the board of Togliattikhimbank Alexander Popov until November 12.15:48 19.08.2020
Ex-chief of Tyumen penal colony ordered to 8-year jail for bribetakingA court in Russia’s Tyumen has sentenced a fomer chief of a local penal colony to 8 years behind bars for receiving bribes worth over 11.8 million rubles ($161,000) from inmates and their acquaintances.13:26 19.08.2020
Former penitentiary employee jailed for 7.5 years for briberyA court in Russia’s Republic of Mordovia has sentenced a former penitentiary employee for taking a bribe.16:40 17.08.2020
Supplier gets 5.5-year suspended term for unworkable warship equipment deliveryEx-CEO of a Moscow pumping plant Igor Rodkin has received a 5.5-year suspended sentence for delivering electric pumps with unserviceable motors worth 40 million rubles (about $550,000) to the Severnaya Verf Shipyard.15:25 17.08.2020
Former Kamchatka official charged with $12,000 bribery faces trialA prosecutor of the Kamchatka Region has approved indictment against a former mayor of the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky charged with receiving bribes totaling to 900,000 rubles (over $12,000).11:56 17.08.2020
Ex-mayor of Russia’s Orenburg sentenced to 4.5 years in jail for corruptionA court of Russia’s Orenburg has passed a 4.5-year high-security penal colony sentence on the former city mayor Yevgeny Arapov for corruption crimes.12:26 13.08.2020
Moscow court vacates 10-year graft sentence of ex-Defense Ministry's auditorThe Moscow City Court on Thursday overturned a 10-year prison sentence against ex-Director of the Russian Defense Ministry’s state contract audit department Maxim Kuksin, who had been convicted of receiving bribes worth over 11 million rubles (over $155,000 at the current exchange rate).17:20 02.07.2020
Russia’s Business Ombudsman urges more active fight against corruption in state procurementThe measures aimed to prevent unscrupulous actions on the part of commissioners in the sphere of state procurement lack efficiency, according to Russia’s Business Rights Commissioner Boris Titov.18:51 03.06.2020
Moscow City Court extends detention of Togliattikhimbank head Popov until August 12The Moscow City Court has extended detention of the former chairman of the board of Togliattikhimbank Alexander Popov until August 12 upon a motion of Russia’s Investigative Committee.16:00 27.05.2020
Appeal against 11-year sentence of Komi Republic ex-head adjourned until June 10The Second Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction has postponed an appeal against an 11-year sentence of ex-head of Russia’s Komi Republic Vyacheslav Gaizer, who had been found guilty of fraud, money laundering and corruption, until June 10.13:59 20.05.2020
Ex-Sakhalin governor Khoroshavin to stand trial on bribery chargesThe Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk City Court will consider a new bribery case against ex-governor of the Sakhalin Region Alexander Khoroshavin, who had been earlier convicted of corruption.15:34 21.04.2020
Damage from corruption crimes estimated at $600 mln in 2019 – Russian prosecutorsA general damage caused by corruption crimes in 2019 was estimated at around 55.1 billion rubles (about $700 million), the press service of the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office reported Monday.10:58 30.03.2020
Detention of Russian security colonel accused of graft, fraud extended for monthThe Moscow Garrison Military Court on Thursday extended detention of the Federal Security Service’s (FSB) colonel Kirill Cherkalin in a case over taking bribes and fraud until April 24.13:52 19.03.2020
Yekaterinburg city lawmaker sentenced to 7 years in high security prisonThe Kirovsky District Court in the city of Yekaterinburg has sentenced a former head of the Sverdlovsk Region capital construction department, currently a lawmaker of the city legislative assembly, Oleg Kagilev, and his partner Dmitry Shadrin to 7 years in a maximum security penal colony each.17:09 18.03.2020
Ex-Russian top investigator ordered to 12-year jail for $1 mln briberyThe Moscow City Court on Wednesday sentenced ex-director of the Investigative Committee's Main Investigations Directorate, General Alexander Drymanov to 12 years in a high-security prison for $1 million bribery.14:05 18.03.2020
Putin calls Russian prosecutors to step up efforts to return stolen state assets from abroadRussian President Vladimir Putin during the extended session of the Prosecutor General’s Office on Tuesday called prosecutors to step up efforts to return embezzled state property from abroad.16:43 17.03.2020
Prosecutors’ asset forfeiture claim against Zakharchenko not to be reconsideredMoscow’s Nikulinsky District Court on Monday refused to reconsider a prosecutors’ claim to forfeit assets of convicted ex-colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko and his relatives to the state upon newly discovered evidence.10:55 16.03.2020