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Probe into 2019 deadly plane fire at Moscow airport completed

Investigation into aircraft captain Denis Yevdokimov over the deadly fire on board a passenger aircraft Sukhoi Superjet-100 (SSJ-100) at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport that had killed 41 people was completed.

14:26 15.04.2020

Probe opened into mass COVID-19 infection in Leningrad Region migrant hostel

A criminal case over sanitary and epidemiological violations resulted in the coronavirus mass infection has been opened in the Leningrad Region. The probe was launched after coronavirus 35 residents of a local migrant hostel had been tested positive for coronavirus.

10:50 15.04.2020

Urals resident charged with assault on Russian center in Kiev in absentia

A resident of Yekaterinburg, Ural, Yury Izotov has been charged in absentia with assault on the Russian center of science and culture in Kiev.

13:25 10.04.2020

Investigative Committee recovers $850k from its ex-officers convicted of embezzlement

The Moscow City Court has upheld a lower court’s decision to recover over 64 million rubles ($850,000) from ex-officers of Russia’s Investigative Committee and other defendants in a case over embezzlement concerning procurement of materials and equipment for repairs of the Committee’s buildings.

17:16 08.04.2020

Attorneys seek to release father of ex-senator from detention due to coronavirus

Defense lawyers have filed a motion seeking to release Raul Arashukov, CEO of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz and father of ex-senator Rauf Arashukov, from detention.

14:59 06.04.2020

Regional high-ranking official suspected of receiving bribes

A criminal case has been opened against vice-governor of the Kirov Region Andrey Plitko suspected of receiving bribes.

18:24 03.04.2020

Self-isolation extended for female employees of Russian Investigative Committee

Female employees of the Russian Investigative Committee will stay home as part of the self-isolation regime until April 30, upon the order of the authority’s Chairman Alexander Bastrykin.

16:16 03.04.2020

Investigators seek to detain three investigations officials on abuse of office charges

The Investigative Committee has filed a motion with Moscow’s Basmanny District Court seeking to place three senior investigations official in detention until June 1. Two deputy chiefs of the Interior Ministry’s Investigations Department Alexander Biryukov and Alexander Krakovsky as well as senior investigator for especially important cases Alexander Bryantsev are charged with abuse of power.

11:35 03.04.2020

Wanted ex-judge arrested on bribery allegations

A wanted ex-magistrate judge, who had allegedly took bribes for delivering rulings declaring rightsof ownership of property units, was arrested in Russia’s Saratov region.

10:43 03.04.2020

Ex-head of Saratov Region town sentenced to 9 years for corruption

A former head of the Saratov Region’s town of Engels Dmitry Lobanov has received 9 years in a high security penal colony for receiving a property bribe.

17:37 01.04.2020

Extradited co-owner of ill-fated Kemerovo mall charged with $100k bribery

A co-owner of Zimnyaya Vishnya (Winter Cherry) shopping mall that became a site of deadly fire killing 60 people in Russia's Kemerovo in March 2018 has been charged with giving a 7-million-ruble bribe (about $100,000).

11:56 01.04.2020

Investigators conduct check over fake video about coronavirus restrictions in Moscow

Investigators have initiated a check over the online distribution of video containing false information on the restrictive measures against coronavirus in Moscow.

15:39 30.03.2020

Investigation into alleged leader of Russia’s Aum Shinrikyo cell completed

Probe into Mikhail Ustyantsev, an alleged organizer of a Russian cell of Aum Shinrikyo organization prohibited in Russia, has been completed.

13:19 26.03.2020

Anti-fake news working group created in Russian Investigative Committee

A working group on the prevention of dessiminating fake news about coronavirus spread in Russia has been created in the Investigative Committee.

11:53 26.03.2020

Probe opened into Russia’s regional health official over quarantine breach

Investigators opened a probe into the external infection disease chief officer of Russia’s Stavropol Krai Irina Sannikova, who had failed to go under the 14-day coronavirus quarantine after her return from Spain.

17:09 23.03.2020

Coronavirus prevention working group created in Russian Investigative Committee

A working group on the prevention of spread of the coronavirus infection has been created in the Russian Investigative Committee upon the order of its chair Alexander Bastrykin.

16:28 20.03.2020

Two defendants in deadly mine flooding case get 2.5 years in penal colony settlement

Acting director of the Mirny Mining and Processing Division Alexander Kisilichin and former chief engineer of the enterprise Alexander Mann have been sentenced to 2.5 years in penal colony settlement each in a case over flooding of the underground mine Mir in Russia’s Yakutia and death of its employees.

10:59 20.03.2020

Probe opened into attack against Russian embassy in Ukraine’s Kiev

Investigation has been launched after the recent attack against Russian embassy in Ukraine.

13:50 18.03.2020

Indictment set to be approved against Russian professor accused of student murder

A criminal case against the St. Petersburg State University’s history professor Oleg Sokolov, who stands charged with the murder of his postgraduate student Anastasia Yeshchenko, has been forwarded to prosecutors for the indictment to be approved.

12:25 18.03.2020

Investigation into pilot Yaroshenko kidnapping case resumed in Russia

Investigation into 11 employees of the U.S. Department of Justice and 6 citizens of Liberia suspected of kidnapping of Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko has been resumed.

15:18 17.03.2020