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Investigation into 24 ultra-nationalist Ukrainian battalion members completed in DPR

Investigating authorities of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) have completed a probe into 24 members of the Ukrainian battalion Azov, designated in the Russian Federation as a terrorist organization.

16:40 07.09.2022

Ex-mayor of Vladivostok ordered to 5–year imprisonment for abuse of power

The Leninsky District Court of Russia’s Vladivostok has sentenced the former city’s mayor Igor Pushkarev to 5 years of imprisonment for abuse of office.

10:42 12.07.2022

Regional ex-deputy prosecutor gets 3 years in jail for corruption

A court in Taganrog has sentenced a former deputy prosecutor of the city Victor Plyushkin to 3 years behind bars for bribery.

10:27 09.06.2022

Moscow court to hear appeal against house arrest of Shaninka rector in embezzlement case

The Moscow City Court will hear a prosecutor's appeal against house arrest of the rector of the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka) Sergey Zuyev in a 21-million-ruble (about $300,000) embezzlement case on October 27.

17:55 20.10.2021

Russian court bans Men’s State organization

The Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court has granted a prosecutors’ claim to prohibit the activities of Men’s State non-governmental organization throughout Russia.

10:28 19.10.2021

Prosecutors seek harsher sentence for man convicted of theatre construction embezzlement

Prosecutors seek to impose a stricter punishment on Maxim Korneyev, who has received suspended sentence for the embezzlement of funds allocated as part of the Federal Target Program “Culture of Russia” for a new building design of the Maly Drama Theatre.

16:59 18.10.2021

Ex-investigators, lawyer accused of corruption to go on trial in Moscow

Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky District Court will hear a case against three former investigators and an attorney, who stand charged with receiving over 5 million rubles (about $70,000) in bribes.

13:00 18.08.2021

Regional prosecutor’s assistant suspected of taking bribes

Investigation has been launched into an assistant of a prosecutor of Russia’s Primorsky Krai Damir Niyazov on bribery allegations.

15:50 17.08.2021

Former Russian official fails to challenge anti-corruption rules, prosecutors’ powers

Former deputy head of the Komi Republic, Alexander Burov, attempted to challenge almost all anti-corruption provisions of the Civil Code, as well as some regulations set by federal anti-corruption laws; however, the Constitutional Court dismissed his complaint.

14:02 06.08.2021

Perm resident fined $2,500 for rehabilitation of Nazism

A court in the Perm Krai fined Maxim Gusev, who had posted a photo of the former head of the Cossack reserve of the German SS Andrey Shkuro, on the Immortal Regiment website, 180,000 rubles ($2,500) finding him guilty of rehabilitation of Nazism.

13:23 05.08.2021

Moscow prosecutor's office launches probe into fraud over vaccination certificates

Moscow prosecutor's office has opened a criminal case after fake vaccination certificates were filed in order to obtain QR codes needed for entry into restaurants and bars.

14:54 15.07.2021

Russia’s Cabinet approves proposal to grant prosecutors right of legislative initiative

The Government Law-Making Commission has approved an initiative to empower prosecutors with the right to submit their bills to regional legislative assemblies.

13:25 08.07.2021

Prosecutors challenge review of recovery of $4 mln from lawyer Tretyakov

The Moscow Region’s Prosecutor Office has lodged a cassation appeal against an order to review a ruling on the recovery of 308.5 million rubles ($4 million) from lawyer Igor Tretyakov.

13:15 12.05.2021

Over 8,500 complaints filed with prosecutors by federal ombudsman in 2020

Federal Ombudsman Tatiana Moskalkova and submitted 8,587 applications to prosecutors, including 591 to the Prosecutor General’s Office, in 2020

10:43 16.04.2021

Jurors selected in 1994 double murder case against businessman Bykov

The Sverdlovsky District Court in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk has drawn a jury panel in a case against businessman Anatoly Bykov charged with masterminding double homicide in 1994.

12:50 12.04.2021

Moscow developer gets suspended sentence for tax evasion

The Kuzminsky District Court of Moscow has passed a 4-year suspended sentence on the owner of Monolitinvest construction company Gennady Vinogradov for tax evasion in the amount of more than 363 million rubles (about $5 million).

16:17 08.04.2021

Prosecutor seeks 8 years in prison for ex-deputy Mayor of Vologda in embezzlement case

A prosecutor on Friday demanded an 8-year prison term for ex-Mayor of Russia’s Vologda Alexey Osokin charged with his alleged accomplices with embezzling 70 million rubles (about $1 million) from the construction of a traffic interchange.

17:34 12.03.2021

Former Moscow’s transport deputy prosecutor arrested in absentia in bribery case

The Basmanny District Court on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant in absentia to former Moscow’s deputy prosecutor for supervision over the execution of laws in the air and water transport Dmitry Listopad charged with taking bribes and abuse of office.

14:05 02.03.2021

Criminal case opened in Moscow over supply of 10 mln used medical gloves

A criminal case has been opened in Moscow over delivery of nearly 10 million previously used one-off medical gloves.

13:57 15.01.2021

Officers accused of providing convicts with falsified good conduct certificates face trial

A court in Dagestan town of Makhachkala is to hear a criminal case over falsification of good conduct certificates issued to convicts seeking conditional release.

17:54 30.11.2020