Smuggling

Tag: Smuggling

Prosecutors seek 16 and 18 years behind bars for ex-policemen for planning terror attack

Public prosecutors have moved to sentence former police officers of the Krasnodar Directorate of the Interior Ministry Maxim Kotomanov and Dmitry Krasilnikov to 16 and 18 years in a maximum security penal colony charged with planning to send letters with poisonous substances to diplomatic missions.

17:37 24.05.2021

Moscow Aviation Institute’s senior lecturer gets 20 years in jail for treason

The Moscow City Court on Friday sentenced the Moscow Aviation Institute’s assistant professor Alexey Vorobyev to 20 years in high-security colony for treason, RAPSI was told in the court’s press service.

13:29 23.04.2021

Persons accused of Amur sturgeon caviar resale face trial in Russia’s Vladivostok

A court in Vladivostok will hear a criminal case over illegal resale of roe of the Amur sturgeons listed in Russia’s Red Book.

10:59 24.03.2021

Russian woman ordered to 3-year jail for $4.5 mln cigarette smuggling

A court in Russia’s Astrakhan has sentenced a woman from the Republic of Dagestan to 3 years in penal colony for tobacco products smuggling in the amount of more than 320 million rubles (about $4.5 million).

13:09 17.03.2021

Investigators complete probe into case over primary timber smuggling to China

Investigation into a criminal case over smuggling of valuable wood species from Russia to China has been completed.

13:12 11.12.2020

Moscow court detains former Odessa lawmaker charged with smuggling

Moscow’s Khoroshevsky District Court on Friday detained ex-lawmaker of Ukraine’s Odessa city council Oleg Markov in a smuggling case for two months.

12:50 20.11.2020

Altai court sentences three individuals for wild falcon smuggling

A court in Russia’s Altai Krai has convicted three defendants in a case over an attempt to transfer 6 rare wild peregrine falcons abroad.

12:26 27.10.2020

Foreigners accused of rare animal paws smuggling to stand trial in Russia

A court in Russia’s Primorsky Krai will consider a criminal case against three foreign nationals charged with smuggling paws of Amur tigers and Himalayan bears.

14:24 29.09.2020

Russia’s security service disrupts smuggling of cigarettes from UAE

About one hundred metric tons of cigarettes illegally imported form the United Arab Emirates have been seized by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).

13:55 07.09.2020

Inquiry powers of Russia’s customs and border services may be extended

The government has backed a bill extending the customs and border services’ powers of inquiry of certain criminal cases over smuggling, according to a statement of the Russian Cabinet of Ministers.

14:24 05.06.2020

Case over antique blades smuggling attempt reaches Russian court

A court in Russia’s Republic of Karelia will proceed with a case over smuggling more than 100 antique epees and sabres.

16:38 20.05.2020

Defendants in falcon smuggling case go on trial in Russia’s Altai

A court in Russia’s Altai Krai will consider a criminal case against four citizens accused of attempt to transfer rare peregrine falcons abroad.

16:17 22.04.2020

Moscow fitness instructor faces trial on smuggling charges

Moscow’s Meshchansky District Court will hear a criminal case against a fitness instructor charged with potent substance smuggling.

18:01 21.01.2020

Russian Supreme Court denies return of Briullov painting to German collector

The Supreme Court of Russia on Thursday granted a cassation appeal filed by prosecution against lower courts’ rulings to return the painting by prominent artist Karl Briullov entitled ‘Christ in the Sepulcher' to German collector Alexander Pevzner.

14:28 19.12.2019

Argentina-Russia drug smuggling case pending in Moscow court

The Solntevsky District Court will hold a preliminary hearing of the case over cocaine smuggling from Argentina to Russia on November 29.

14:51 27.11.2019

Chief of customs station arrested in St. Petersburg as part of antiques smuggling case

A chief of a customs terminal of the Baltic Customs Service has been arrested on suspicion of taking bribes for providing a free importation channel for undeclared antiques from Europe.

10:51 06.11.2019

Alleged mink smuggler to stand trial in Russia’s Far East

A criminal case against a river tug’s mate charged with attempted mink smuggling worth over 9.5 million rubles (over $150,000) has been forwarded to court in Khabarovsk, a city in Russia’s Far East.

13:16 26.06.2019

Russian woman gets 13 years in prison for drug trafficking

A court in St. Petersburg has sentenced local resident Natalya Solovyeva to 13 years behind bars for smuggling drugs and attempt to illegally sell them.

15:11 14.06.2019

Defendant in Argentina-Russia drug smuggling case to stay detained till September

The Moscow City Court on Tuesday extended detention of Andrey Kovalchuk involved in a criminal case over cocaine smuggling from Argentina to Russia until September 1.

17:12 28.05.2019

Five men get prison terms of up to 8 years for weapon smuggling from Europe to Russia

The Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced five men to prison terms ranging from 5 to 8 years in prison for weapon smuggling from Europe to Russia.

17:27 07.05.2019