Prosecution

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Prosecutor seeks 9-year terms for lawyers involved in Aeroflot embezzlement case

A prosecutor has demanded 9 years in jail for lawyers Alexander Slivko and Dina Kibets each in the Aeroflot embezzlement case.

10:27 16.06.2022

Russian hematologist granted $60k comensation for unfounded prosecution

Moscow’s Cheremushkinsky District Court on Friday ordered Russia’s Finance Ministry to pay well-known hematologist Elena Misyurina 4.3 million rubles ($60,000) in compensation for damage caused by unfounded criminal prosecution against her.

13:46 15.10.2021

Russian prosecutors to file claims with commercial courts as to state procurement disputes

Russia’s State Duma has passed in the first reading a bill envisaging that prosecutors are to be given the right to apply to commercial courts with claims concerning disputes over violations of the laws governing defense and public procurement.

15:00 24.03.2021

President Putin urges prosecutors to step up fight against extremism and crime

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called prosecutors to strengthen the fight against extremism and crime and clamp down on corruption and misappropriation of state funds.

11:06 12.01.2021

Businessman recovers $40K from Russia’s Finance Ministry for unlawful prosecution

Entrepreneur Yury Chub could recover three million rubles (about $40,000) from Russia’s Finance Ministry for unlawful prosecution continuing over almost 14 years.

18:06 15.09.2020

Former police officers receive prison terms for criminal case fabrication

A court in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod has sentenced five ex-policemen of the Republic of Tatarstan to prison terms ranging from 5 to 12 years for initiation of illegal prosecution of four persons with the use of force against them.

16:27 30.07.2020

Russia’s Ombudsman to establish working group on suspects’ rights

Russia’s Rights Commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova working in cooperation with representatives of an NGO engaged in protection of rights of victims of unjust criminal prosecution and wrongfully convicted persons is set to establish a working group to deal with violations of rights of suspects and convicts.

17:30 16.07.2020

Prosecution apologizes to ex-defendant in Moscow summer riots case

A prosecutor’s office has officialy apologized to a former defendant in a Moscow summer riots case Sergey Abanichev for unfounded prosecution.

10:42 28.05.2020

Over 50 law enforcement officers convicted of evidence tampering in 2019 - report

Fifty three officers of law enforcement agencies were convicted of tampering with evidence, five of them jailed, in 2019, according to a report of lawyer Maxim Nikonov, who cooperates with Zona Prava (Law Zone) advocacy group.

11:59 27.05.2020

Moskalkova seeks observance of healthcare rights of Russian prosecuted in U.S.

Russia’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Tatiana Moskalkova has forwarded an appeal in defense of the rights of Russian man Oleg Nikitin prosecuted in U.S. on several charges to the Director of the country’s Federal Bureau Of Prisons Michael Carvaja.

15:42 17.03.2020

Russian Finance Ministry ordered to pay $1.5k to unauthorized Moscow rally participant

Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court on Monday ordered the Russian Finance Ministry to pay a participant of the unauthorized July 27 Moscow rally Daniil Konon 100,000 rubles ($1,500) in compensation for moral harm caused by illegal prosecution.

14:04 02.03.2020

Moskalkova claims prosecution of Crimeans by Ukraine must be dismissed

Ukrainian authorities must dismiss criminal prosecution of Crimeans as the citizenship choice is not a crime, Russia’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Tatiana Moskalkova said during the Ombudsmen Coordination Council’s session on Wednesday.

13:24 11.12.2019

Russian woman adjudged compensation for illegal prosecution for extremism

A court in Russia’s city of Barnaul has ordered the Finance Ministry to pay 100,000 rubles ($1,600) in compensation to Maria Motuznaya for illegal prosecution over a publication on VKontakte social networks.

15:13 22.07.2019

Finance Ministry ordered to pay Russian citizen $800 for unjustified prosecution

A court in Abakan, the capital city of the Russian Republic of Khakassia, has ordered the Finance Ministry to pay the local citizen Artem Yurchenko 50,000 rubles (about $800) in compensation for unjustified prosecution in the extremism case.

16:27 26.06.2019

Russian MPs propose to pay compensations for unwarranted prosecution

A group of Just Russia lawmakers headed by Sergey Mironov submitted a bill on compensations for unwarranted prosecution and custodial restraint to the State Duma on Thursday.

15:58 13.06.2019

Russian MPs adopt bill on arrest of CIS wanted persons in absentia

The State Duma lawmakers passed in the third and final reading on Thursday a bill authorizing courts to issue arrest warrants in absentia for persons put not only on the international wanted list but on the CIS interstate one as well.

14:25 21.02.2019

Probe opened in Russia into Ukraine’s Vyshinsky case investigator

A criminal case has been launched in Russia against Ukrainian investigator Andrey Prosnyak over prosecution of journalist Kirill Vyshinsky.

12:45 22.01.2019

People in Russia spend years illegally detained – official

More than 14,000 people in Russia have been illegally prosecuted in the past three years, Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika said Wednesday.

18:11 12.02.2014

US Justice Department reports substantial increase in Indian country prosecutions

Criminal prosecutions have increased significantly in America’s Indian country since 2009, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed Thursday as it announced the release of a report entitled “Indian Country Investigations and Prosecutions” to Congress.

19:48 31.05.2013

Russian investigators vow to prosecute US families for orphan abuse

Russia's Investigative Committee will call on Interpol to prosecute the US families who have been implicated in the deaths of their adopted Russian children, the committee's chief Alexander Bastrykin told reporters on Wednesday.

17:44 20.03.2013