Regional lawmaker charged with bribery freed from jail, put under house arrestA court in the Russian city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky released regional lawmaker Valery Bykov charged with corruption from detention.15:20 05.04.2019
Former anti-corruption official Zakharchenko to remain in detention until late JulyMoscow’s Presnensky District Court on Thursday extended detention of the former anti-corruption official Dmitry Zakharchenko charged with taking bribes until July 24.17:21 04.04.2019
Retired peace justice suspected of bribery – Russian Investigative CommitteeA criminal case has been opened against a magistrate judge emeritus suspected of receiving bribes.12:57 04.04.2019
Prosecutor seeks 21-year prison sentence for Komi Republic’s ex-head GaizerA prosecutor has demanded a 21-year imprisonment for the former head of Russia’s Komi Republic Vyacheslav Gaizer charged with taking bribes and organizing a criminal network.19:43 26.03.2019
Arrest warrant for defendant in case against Moscow Region district ex-head upheldThe Moscow City Court has upheld a lower court ruling on the arrest of ex-head of Bolshevik, a small town in the Moscow Region, Boris Krivodubsky, in absentia.16:37 20.03.2019
Investigators seek to detain Russian MP involved in $50 mln bribery caseThe Investigative Committee of Russia has filed a motion with a court in Yekaterinburg demanding to place the State Duma lawmaker Vadim Belousov involved in a 3.2-billion-ruble (about $50 million) bribery case in detention.14:27 15.03.2019
Banker, ex-lawyer accused of bribing former anti-corruption official to stay in detentionThe Moscow City Court on Friday upheld extension of detention for a board member of Interprogressbank Valery Markelov and ex-attorney Victor Belevtsov, who had allegedly given a 1-bilion-ruble ($15.3 million) bribe to ex-Russian anti-corruption official Dmitry Zakharchenko.12:59 15.03.2019
Claim to forfeit Moscow Region district ex-head’s $150 mln assets to be heard on March 21The Krasnogorsk City Court in the Moscow Region will begin hearing a lawsuit lodged by prosecutors seeking to forfeit 10-billion-ruble ($150 million) assets of ex-head of the Moscow Region’s Serpukhov District Alexander Shestun on March 21.14:36 11.03.2019
Detention of high-ranking Moscow Region official in bribery case upheldThe Moscow City Court has dismissed an appeal filed by Sergey Gribinyuchenko, ex-head of the Moscow Region’s Pushkino District, against his detention in a bribery case. He will stay in detention until April 18,12:24 11.03.2019
Former mayor of Nizhny Novgorod sentenced to 10 years in penal colonyFormer mayor of Nizhny Novgorod and vice-speaker of the regional parliament, Oleg Sorokin, has been sentenced to 10 years in high security penal colony by the Nizhegorodsky District Court of the city of Nizhny Novgorod.17:53 07.03.2019
Investigators seek detention for high-ranking Moscow Region official suspected of briberyInvestigators are going to file a motion to detain Sergey Gribinyuchenko, ex-head of the Moscow Region’s Pushkino District, as part of a corruption case.10:59 20.02.2019
Former anti-extremism officer gets suspended sentence for extortion attemptFormer high-ranking officer of the St. Petersburg police anti-extremism directorate Eduard Tugushev has received a 3-year suspended sentence for attempted bribe extortion.16:54 19.02.2019
Ex-Moscow investigator, attorney to go to prison for corruptionEx-deputy chief of a Moscow district’s police investigation department Maxim Zaytsev and attorney Yelena Sidorenkova have been sentenced to 7.5 and 5.5 years in prison respectively for taking bribes.15:59 13.02.2019
St. Petersburg court refuses to free ex-lawmaker convicted of bribery on paroleThe St. Petersburg City Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s refusal to release ex-member of the city’s Legislative Assembly Vyacheslav Notyag convicted of taking bribes on parole.13:09 13.02.2019
Former Dagestan antimonopoly official pleads not guilty to taking bribesEx-chief of the Federal Antimonopoly Service’s Dagestan Directorate Kubasay Kubasayev on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to receiving bribes totaling to 2.6 million rubles (about $40,000 at the current exchange rate).17:17 12.02.2019
Prosecutors seek forfeiture of $23 mln assets of former Mari El Republic governorProsecutors have filed a lawsuit demanding to forfeit assets worth over 1.5 billion rubles ($23 million) belonging to ex-governor of Russia’s Mari El Republic Leonid Markelov charged with taking bribes.16:05 12.02.2019
Corruption sentence of ex-deputy governor of Vologda Region reduced by 1.5 yearsThe Vologda Regional Court on Monday reduced sentence given to ex-deputy governor of the region Nikolay Guslinsky for taking bribes from 8 to 6.5 years in prison. Moreover, the court decreased fine imposed on the defendant from 84.7 million rubles ($1.3 million) to 39.5 million rubles (over $600,000).12:44 11.02.2019
Ex-Defense Ministry’s auditor charged with bribery to stay detained for two more monthsMoscow’s Savelovsky District Court on Friday extended detention of ex-Director of the Russian Defense Ministry’s state contract audit department Maxim Kuksin, who stands charged with taking bribes.17:39 08.02.2019
Defense of ex-antimonopoly official charged with corruption given time to arrange caseMoscow’s Lefortovsky District Court on Monday postponed trial of ex-chief of the Federal Antimonopoly Service’s Dagestan Directorate Kubasay Kubasayev charged with taking 2.6 million rubles (about $40,000 at the current exchange rate) in bribes because of the defense’s unfinalized stance.16:06 04.02.2019
Crimean deputy prime minister to stay detained on bribery charges until mid-MarchThe Moscow City Court on Wednesday upheld a ruling of a lower court extending detention of Crimea’s deputy prime minister Vitaly Nakhlupin involved in a corruption case until March 16.15:29 16.01.2019