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Convicted defendant in $5M submarine model embezzlement case denied parole

Ex-CEO of NovIT PRO Andrey Petrov convicted of involvement in the embezzlement of 368 million rubles of involvement in the embezzlement of 368 million rubles allocated by the Defense Ministry for developing and manufacturing a 3D model for repairs of a submarine was denied parole.

16:40 26.08.2021

Ex-Defense Ministry's auditor acquitted of $150,000 graft

The Moscow City Court has acquitted ex-Director of the Russian Defense Ministry’s state contract audit department Maxim Kuksin of taking 11 million rubles (over $150,000) in bribes.

10:22 01.07.2021

List of persons subject to state protection proposed to be extended in Russia

The Law-Making Government Commission has backed a bill extending public protection to all servicemen and employees of Russia’s Defense Ministry, Interior Ministry, Foreign Intelligence Service and National Guard.

16:45 07.06.2021

Former Defense Ministry official gets 6.5 years behind bars for graft, abuse of office

Moscow’s Khamovnichevsky District Court has sentenced ex-deputy head of the Defense Ministry’s Competitive Procedure Directorate Alexander Boruvkov to 6.5 years in penal colony for graft and abuse of office.

11:28 02.03.2021

Criminal case over embezzlement of $5M from Russia’s Defense Ministry reaches court

A criminal case over embezzlement of 368 million rubles (about $5 million) the Defense Ministry allocated for the development and manufacturing of a 3D model to be used for repairs of a submarine has reached the St. Petersburg Kirovsky District to be adjudicated on the merits.

17:54 16.02.2021

Moscow court vacates 10-year graft sentence of ex-Defense Ministry's auditor

The 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

Two businessmen convicted in case over $15 mln embezzlement of Defense Ministry funds

The Shcherbinsky District Court in Moscow has sentenced two entrepreneurs to 8 and 4 years respectively in a penal colony in a criminal case over massive embezzlement of budgetary funds worth over 1 billion rubles ($15 million) allocated for construction and reconstruction of Russia’s Defense Ministry facilities.

12:45 03.06.2020

Former Russian military official gets twelvefold fine for taking $3,000 bribe

A former chief of a military representative office of the Russian Defense Ministry Alexander Kuzmin has been sentenced to a 2.5-million-ruble (about $35,000) fine for receiving a 200,000-ruble bribe (nearly $3,000).

15:03 13.03.2020

Ex-Defense Ministry’s auditor gets 10 years in prison for $175,000 graft

Moscow’s Kuzminsky District Court on Monday convicted ex-Director of the Russian Defense Ministry’s state contract audit department Maxim Kuksin, of receiving bribes worth over 11 million rubles ($175,000) and sentenced him to 10 years in a high-security prison.

16:28 16.12.2019

Russian Supreme Court upholds defense official's jailing in Arctic survey embezzlement case

Russia’s Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal filed by the Defense Ministry’s navigation and oceanography department chief Sergey Travin against a 7-year prison sentence for embezzling 70 million rubles ($1 million) allocated for surveying shelf limits in the Arctic Ocean.

12:38 02.12.2019

Russian Defense Ministry ordered to pay $61k to ex-soldiers suffered tank fire

A court in the Leningrad Region on Thursday ordered the Defense Ministry of Russia to pay 4 million rubles (about $61,000) to three ex-common soldiers, who had suffered from tank gun hits during army exercises.

17:46 05.09.2019

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

The Leningrad District Military Court convicted four defendants of embezzling 70 million rubles ($1 million) allocated for surveying shelf limits in the Arctic Ocean.

15:00 25.07.2019

Russian ex-construction official gets 8 years in prison for $15mln embezzlement

The Moscow Shcherbinsky District Court has found ex-first deputy director of the Federal Agency for Special Construction (Spetsstroy) Alexander Zagorulko guilty of embezzling budget funds worth over 1 billion rubles (about $15 million) allocated for construction and reconstruction of the Defense Ministry’s facilities.

15:36 07.03.2019

Ex-Defense Ministry’s auditor charged with bribery to stay detained for two more months

Moscow’s Savelovsky District Court on Friday extended detention of ex-Director of the Russian Defense Ministry’s state contract audit department Maxim Kuksin, who stands charged with taking bribes.

17:39 08.02.2019

Ex-construction official’s sentence for embezzlement mitigated by Russian court

The Moscow City Court on Wednesday reduced a sentence of ex-deputy chief of the Federal Agency for Special Construction (Spetsstroy) Alexander Buryakov convicted of embezzlement during construction and reconstruction of the Defense Ministry facilities by 3 months.

14:47 21.11.2018

Sentence of ex-regional CEO of Defense Ministry’s contractor takes effect

The sentence of ex-CEO of Slavyanka utility company’s office in Russia’s Kronstadt Stanislav Kolomiyets has taken effect.

16:35 16.11.2018

Russian prosecutors reveal $3 mln embezzlement at Defense Ministry’s design institute

Prosecutors have revealed embezzlement of 188 million rubles (about $3 million) from the Defense Ministry’s design institute of special construction.

15:59 09.10.2018

Russian ex-construction official to stay under house arrest on embezzlement charges

The Moscow City Court has extended house arrest of ex-first deputy director of the Federal Agency for Special Construction (Spetsstroy) Alexander Zagorulko charged with embezzling budget funds allocated for construction and reconstruction of the Defense Ministry’s facilities.

15:44 27.08.2018

Detention of Defense Ministry’s auditor charged with bribery upheld

The Moscow City Court has upheld detention of Director of the Russian Defense Ministry’s state contract audit department Maxim Kuksin, who stands charged with taking bribes.

17:45 15.08.2018

Moscow court releases defendant in major fraud case related to Defense Ministry

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow has ruled to release from prison the former head of the Security and Сommunications company Andrey Lugansky, a defendant in a case over crimes committed in a MoD utility company Slavyanka.

11:59 27.07.2018