Two Ukrainians accused of attack on Russian cultural center in Kiev arrested in absentiaA court has issued an arrest warrant for two alleged members of Ukraine’s nationalist organization S14 charged with attacking the Russian center of science and culture in Kiev in absentia.13:00 22.03.2019
Senior Moscow Region official suspected of abuse of authorityA criminal case has been opened against the first deputy head of the Moscow Region’s Chekhov urban district Dmitry Frish suspected of abuse of office.15:47 21.03.2019
Former Russian judge gets six years for promise to overturn guilty verdictJudge emeritus of the Saratov Regional Court Vladimir Stasenkov has received six years in colony for a promise to reverse a judgment of conviction for 15 million rubles (over $235,000).14:59 21.03.2019
Ex-senior Kuzbass officials, investigators go on trial over Inskoy mine extortionFormer senior officials from the administration of the Kuzbass region, employees of Russia's Investigative Committee regional branch go on trial at the Central Kemerovo city court along with businessman Alexander Shchukin and his lawyer Gennady Vernigor. All of them face criminal charges of participating in an extortion of a controlling stake in Inskoy open-cut coal mine while there is also an episode linked to a bribe to the head of the Investigative Committee office in the Kemerovo region.10:01 21.03.2019
Moscow court extends detention of former high-ranking investigator charged with briberyThe Moscow City Court on Wednesday extended detention for ex-chief of the Investigative Committee’s Moscow directorate Alexey Kramarenko charged with receiving bribes until June 26.15:18 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
Moscow Metro embezzlement case defendant put on international wanted listAlexander Heller, a defendant in a criminal case over 850-million-ruble embezzlement (about $13 mln) from the Moscow Metro state unitary enterprise, has been put on the international wanted list.13:43 14.03.2019
Putin proposes to confer forensic inquiry powers on Russia’s Investigative CommitteePresident Vladimir Putin has proposed to extend authorities of Russia's Investigative Committee by granting it powers on organizing and conducting forensic examinations. A relevant bill has been submitted to the State Duma.09:59 12.03.2019
Russian investigators seek to arrest ex-banker in absentia in $515 mln embezzlement caseThe Investigative Committee of Russia on Monday asked Moscow’s Basmanny District Court to arrest ex-president of Otkritie Bank Eugeny Dankevich in absentia as part of a 34-billion-ruble embezzlement case ($515 million).11:24 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
Defendants in case over murder of European junior wrestling champion jailed for up to 17 yearsThe Supreme Court of the Republic of Buryatia, a Russia’s northern region, has sentenced three defendants in the case over the murder of Yury Vlasko, the two-time European junior freestyle wrestling champion, to prison terms ranging from 12 to 17 years.15:10 04.03.2019
Probe into ex-penitentiary official Korshunov completed - investigatorsThe Investigative Committee of Russia has completed a probe into ex-Deputy chief of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Oleg Korshunov and his alleged accomplices.17:46 25.02.2019
Moscow investigators urge to detain mother suspected of endangering leaving son in parkInvestigators on Wednesday lodged a motion seeking to place a mother, who had left her son in a Moscow reservation park for a night, in detention. The woman is suspected of attempted murder.12:31 20.02.2019
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
Russian businessman charged with $9 mln land plot fraud pleads not guiltyRussian businessman Ilya Sherman charged with land plot fraud estimated at about 570 million rubles (about $9 million) has pleaded not guilty.15:43 12.02.2019
Ex-regional penitentiary official put under house arrest on allegations of bribery, fraudA former chief of the Federal Penitentiary Service’s Lipetsk Directorate has been placed under house arrest on allegations of bribery and insurance fraud.16:59 08.02.2019
Probe opened into alleged abuse of whales in Russia’s Far EastInvestigation has been opened into alleged cruelty to orca whales and white whales, which had been illegally captured in the Primorsk Territory of Russia’s Far East.17:03 07.02.2019
Bribery charges brought against Moscow Region district ex-headBribery charges have been additionally brought against ex-head of the Moscow Region’s Serpukhov District Alexander Shestun, who is currently under investigation on allegations of embezzlement, money laundering and illegal business activities.13:47 06.02.2019
Two suspects in $455 mln gas embezzlement put on wanted listInvestigators have put two suspects in embezzling natural gas worth 30 billion rubles ($455 million) from Gazprom energy giant on the federal wanted list,.11:30 06.02.2019
Investigators ask court to detain one more defendant in $455 mln gas embezzlement caseThe Investigative Committee of Russia on Friday filed a motion with Moscow’s Basmanny District Court seeking to detain one more defendant in a 30-billion-ruble ($455 million) gas embezzlement case.14:50 01.02.2019