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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

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

Construction businessman, his advisor detained on embezzlement allegations

A court has detained director of Stroy Group construction company Pavel Babayev and his advisor Pavel Loboda as part of a 3 billion-ruble (about $44.5 million) embezzlement case.

11:43 06.03.2020

Journalist Golunov ordered to undergo mental examination – attorney

The Investigative Committee of Russia has sent journalist Ivan Golunov to a mental examination.

17:23 05.03.2020

Defendant in Russia’s Primorye Oceanarium embezzlement case gets 12 years in jail

Andrey Poplavsky, the former CEO of a state organization established to oversee the implementation of a presidential decree on the construction of the Primorye Oceanarium, has received 12 years in a high-security penal colony for large-scale embezzlement.

12:12 04.03.2020

Over 400 criminal cases opened following media reports in Russia in 2019 – official

Russian investigators launched over 400 criminal cases following journalist investigations and mass media publications in 2019.

09:40 04.03.2020

Former regional police official sentenced to 5 years for waste of nearly $3 mln

Ex-chief of the Interior Ministry’s Directorate for the Kamchatka Krai Alexander Sidorenko has received 5 years behind bars for wastage of budget funds worth over 200 million rubles (about $3 million).

13:18 28.02.2020

Charges brought against alleged participant of assault on Russian center in Kiev

Russian citizen Mikhail Agafonov has been charged with assault on the Russian center of science and culture in Kiev.

12:41 28.02.2020

Teenager suspected of assault to murder school teacher in Russia’s Ulyanovsk

Investigation was launched into a 15-year teenager, who had allegedly stabbed a teacher of one of the schools in Russia’s city of Ulyanovsk.

13:50 26.02.2020

Defendants in fictitious works at Vostochny case sentenced to up to 5 years in prison

A court has sentenced former project manager of the Chief Administration for Special Construction in the territory of Siberia Natalya Bulantseva to 5 years in a penal colony for embezzlement of budgetary funds during construction of Vostochny Cosmodrome.

12:38 26.02.2020

Investigators open case over activities of Jehovah’s Witnesses chapter in Siberia

Investigative authorities of Russia’s Zabaikalsky Krai region in Siberia have initiated a criminal case over activities of a chapter of banned Jehovah’s Witnesses.

10:35 11.02.2020