Former Russian military official gets twelvefold fine for taking $3,000 bribeA 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 allegationsA 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 – attorneyThe 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 jailAndrey 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 – officialRussian 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 mlnEx-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 KievRussian 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 UlyanovskInvestigation 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 prisonA 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 SiberiaInvestigative 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
Top penitentiary official of Russia’s North Ossetia suspected of $50k embezzlementA criminal case has been opened against a chief of the Federal Penitentiary Service’s Directorate for Republic of North Ossetia on suspicion of embezzling 3 million rubles (about $50,000).17:54 07.02.2020
Moscow investigator charged with receiving $68,000 bribeA Moscow investigator has been charged with taking a 4.3-million-ruble bribe ($68,000) for non-bringing of a criminal case defendant to liability.18:06 06.02.2020
Assailant of house of Russian Central Election Commission head ordered to forced treatmentA court ordered the native of Kazakhstan Bakhyt Karabalayev, who had committed assault related to robbery against the house of Chair of Russia’s Central Electoral Commission Ella Pamfilova, to undergo compulsory treatment.10:54 05.02.2020
Woman who put child in driving seat released on travel restrictionsA court in Moscow released a woman, who had put her son in a car’s driving seat, on travel restrictions.15:48 04.02.2020
Probe opened into beating journalist in Russia’s Khanty-Mansi Autonomous AreaInvestigation has been initiated over battering a journalist in Surgut, a city in Russia’s Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.14:48 03.02.2020
Investigators seek for arrest of tycoon Mints in absentia on embezzlement chargesRussian investigators have petitioned to arrest businessman Boris Mints and two his sons in absentia. The motion will be heard on January 31.17:27 30.01.2020
Regional senior penitentiary official suspected of abuse of officeProbe has been opened into a deputy chief of the Federal Penitentiary Service’s Directorate for the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, who had allegedly used convicts as labour in the interests of business.12:32 30.01.2020
Investigators seek to detain ex-policemen accused of abuse of power against GolunovInvestigators filed a motion with the Basmanny District Court of Moscow seeking to put five ex-police officers, who had been earlier arrested in a case over abuse of power against journalist Ivan Golunov, in detention.10:51 30.01.2020
Probe into Moscow student involved in illegal rally case completedInvestigators have completed a probe into the Moscow Aviation Institute student Andrey Barshay, who had allegedly given a National Guard officer a poke in the back during an unauthorized summer rally on July 27, 2019.17:27 29.01.2020
Russian prosecutors push for rarer placing of criminal defendants in detentionRussian prosecutors believe that investigators ask courts to detain defendants in minor and medium gravity criminal cases far too frequently, a statement released on the official website of the Prosecutor General’s Office reads.16:19 29.01.2020