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Eastern Siberian lawmaker suspected of $2.5 mln embezzlement

Lawmaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Irkutsk Region in the Eastern Siberia Andrey Levchenko was arrested on Monday on suspicion of embezzling more than 185 million rubles (about $2.5 million) allocated for the thorough overhaul of multi-family residential houses.

11:30 28.09.2020

Alleged sect leaders detained for two months by Siberian court

The Central District Court of Novosibirsk, a city in Russia’s Siberia, has placed three alleged religious sect leaders in detention for two months.

15:24 23.09.2020

Director of Siberian mining institute to stand trial on embezzlement charges

A court in Novosibirsk will consider a case against director of the Institute of Mining of N.A. Chinakal of the Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences Andrey Kondratenko charged with the 2.4 million-ruble (over 31,000) embezzlement.

13:35 23.09.2020

Siberian police officers suspected of abuse of power

A criminal case has been opened against polic officers from Novosibirsk, a city in Russia’s West Siberia, on suspicion of abuse of power.

17:34 22.09.2020

Police carry out pre-investigation probe over hospitalization of Navalny

Investigators of the Siberian Federal District’ transport police conduct a pre-investigation check over hospitalization of Alexey Navalny in Omsk on August 20.

13:13 27.08.2020

Three defendants in Siberian gold-mining dike burst case to stand trial

Three defendants in a criminal case over a burst dike in a gold mine in Siberia’s Krasnoyarsk Region occurred in the fall of 2019 will go on tria.

17:36 31.07.2020

Antimonopoly watchdog reveals $11 mln cartel agreement at Siberian hydropower plant

Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has found out that two companies made an anticompetitive agreement concerning the procurement of construction works at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power project.

12:59 24.07.2020

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 seek to seize gold found after deadly dam burst in Siberia

Investigators have filed a motion with court seeking to seize gold found in a safe box washed off by a burst dike in a gold mine in Siberia’s Krasnoyarsk Region.

14:00 22.10.2019

Three defendants in Siberian gold-mining dike burst case put in detention

A court in Krasnoyarsk, one of the largest cities in Russia’s Siberia, has ordered the owner of Sisim gold-mining artel Maxim Kovalkov to be detained for 2 months in a case over the deadly dike burst claiming lives of at least 15 people.

11:59 22.10.2019

Former Siberian mayor gets suspended sentence for abuse of office, fraud

Victor Oblogin, ex-mayor of Gorno-Altaisk, a city in the Western Siberia, on Monday received a 4-year suspended sentence for abuse of office and fraud.

14:46 07.10.2019

Former Siberian top economic official given 10 years in prison for corruption

A court in Krasnoyarsk, the third-largest city in Russia’s Siberia, has sentenced ex-regional deputy minister of economic development Nadezhda Marshalkina to 10 years in prison for bribery.

12:09 26.06.2019

Ex-CEO of Siberian air carrier sentenced to 4 years for corruption

A court sentenced a former CEO of KrasAvia passenger airline based in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, to 4 years in prison for taking bribes.

11:50 17.05.2019

Ex-Emergency Reserve official gets 13 years in prison for corruption

A court in Russia’s Novosibirsk has given ex-deputy chief of the Federal Agency for National Emergency Reserve’s Siberian District Directorate Ilgiz Garifullin 13 years in high security prison for corruption.

17:01 25.01.2019

CEO of Siberian air carrier suspected of taking bribes

The West Siberian transport investigators have opened a criminal case against CEO of KrasAvia passenger airline based in Krasnoyarsk on suspicion of taking bribes.

13:42 06.12.2017

Ex-members of Siberia’s largest gang to go on trial

Six alleged ex-members of the largest criminal organization in Siberia, the Osintsev gang, will face trial.

10:59 01.12.2017

Putin pardons defendant in Siberian 2007 mine disaster case

President Vladimir Putin has pardoned ex-CEO of the Ulyanovskaya Mine in Siberia, Andrey Funk, sentenced to 6 years in prison in the case over explosion at the enterprise in 2007 that left 110 people dead.

17:38 17.08.2017

Sibmost appeals ruling in $19k copyright infringement suit filed by Microsoft

Russian construction company Sibmost that specializes in the production of bridges filed an appeal against the judgement ordering it to pay Microsoft Corp 1 million rubles (about $19,000) for copyright infringement.

17:56 13.04.2015

Seven men indicted, sentenced in Siberian plant disaster that left 75 dead

A court in the Siberian city of Sayanogorsk has sentenced seven men, four of whom received various terms in prison over the Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydroelectric Power Plant disaster in 2009.

13:57 24.12.2014

Siberian court acquits doctor in prescription dealing case

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Krasnoyarsk found Doctor Alevtina Khorinyak not guilty of selling a strong opiate medicinal drug out of jurisdiction, attorney Vyacheslav Bogdanov told RAPSI on Tuesday.

13:18 21.10.2014