Moscow's Nikulinsky District Court

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Defense lawyer for notorious Russian defendants gets 2.5 years of bribery mediation

Moscow’s Nikulinsky District Court on Thursday sentenced lawyer Alexander Vershinin defending several defendants in notorious cases to 2.5 years in penal colony for mediation in bribery.

14:32 24.06.2021

Son of ex-Prime Minister of Russia’s Dagestan acquitted of student murder

Moscow’s Nikulinsky District Court on Tuesday basing on the jurors’ verdict acquitted Murtuzali Medzhidov, the son of ex-head of Dagestan’s government Mukhtar Medzhidov, of murder of a female student of Moscow State University of Foreign Affairs.

11:37 08.06.2021

MMA fighter gets 8.5 years in prison for businessman kidnapping

Moscow’s Nikulinsky District Court on Thursday sentenced MMA fighter Dmitry Sosnovsky to 8.5 years in high-security penal colony for participation in the kidnapping of a Moscow businessman and extortion.

13:28 13.05.2021

Sentence of defendant in Moscow court building arson case reduced by month

A 4-year sentence given to Rafis Galimov in a case over the arson of Moscow’s Nikulinsky District Court has been reduced by one month.

10:50 22.01.2021

New case against ex-culture official transferred from St. Petersburg to Moscow

A new case against ex-Deputy Culture Minister Grigory Pirumov over the 800 million-ruble embezzlement allocated for restoration of the Hermitage Museum has been transferred from St. Petersburg to Moscow.

16:54 27.04.2020

Prosecutors’ asset forfeiture claim against Zakharchenko not to be reconsidered

Moscow’s Nikulinsky District Court on Monday refused to reconsider a prosecutors’ claim to forfeit assets of convicted ex-colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko and his relatives to the state upon newly discovered evidence.

10:55 16.03.2020

Halfback Glushakov loses $3 million damage claim against his former wife

Moscow’s Nikulinsky District Court on Friday dismissed a 200-million-ruble ($3 million) defamation claim filed by football halfback Denis Glushakov against his ex-wife.

16:22 07.02.2020

Common-law wife of convicted Zakharchenko fined for evidence tampering

Moscow’s Nikulinsky District Court on Friday fined Anastasia Pestrikova, the partner wife of a former Russian anti-corruption official Dmitry Zakharchenko convicted of graft, 150,000 rubles for evidence tampering.

12:50 07.02.2020

Moscow court says motor insurer to pay $125,000 to footballer Smolov

Moscow's Nikulinsky District Court has ruled that Alfastrakhovanie company is to pay just over 8 million rubles (about $125,000) to Moscow Lokomotiv FC forward Fedor Smolov to meet his claim seeking compensation of the costs of overhaul of the footballer's BMW vehicle.

15:25 01.10.2019

Motion to review ruling on confiscation of Zakharchenko’s property denied

Moscow’s Nikulinsky District Court has declined to reconsider a ruling on forfeiture of property worth nearly 9 billion rubles ($131 million at the current exchange rate) owned by the former Russian anti-corruption official Dmitry Zakharchenko charged with corruption crimes and his relatives to the State.

11:56 23.08.2018

Alleged Russian gang leader sentenced to nearly 10 years for extortion

The Nikulinsky District Court of Moscow on Thursday sentenced an alleged gang leader Zachary Kalashov, also known as Shakro Molodoy, to 9 years and 10 months in a high security penal colony as part of a criminal case over extortion of 8 million rubles ($138,600).

14:55 29.03.2018

Investigation into three instances of case against Zakharchenko complete

Investigators have completed preliminary investigation into three instances of a criminal case against Russian anti-corruption ex-official, Dmitry Zakharchenko.

15:59 15.12.2017

About €2,000 seized from partner of former anti-corruption official Zakharchenko

Law enforcement officers seized about €2,000 belonging to Marina Semynina, a partner of former Russian anti-corruption official charged with receiving a large-scale bribe, Dmitry Zakharchenko, during the searches at her apartment on Wednesday.

18:07 13.12.2017

Property of Zakharchenko and his relatives to be seized by state

The Nikulinsky District Court of Moscow has ruled to seize property of Russian anti-corruption official charged with receiving a large-scale bribe, Dmitry Zakharchenko, as well as property of his relatives, in the state's favor.

13:45 01.12.2017

Lawyer asks court to dismiss lawsuit on seizure of anti-corruption ex-official’s property

A lawyer of Dmitry Zakharchenko, former Russian anti-corruption official charged with receiving a large-scale bribe, has asked a court to dismiss a lawsuit of the Prosecutor General’s Office seeking to turn his client’s property to the state.

14:59 10.11.2017

Navalny, his accomplices ordered to pay $35,500 to Kirovles

Moscow’s Nikulinsky District Court on Tuesday ordered opposition politician Alexey Navalny and two other defendants in the embezzlement case to pay 2.1 million rubles (about $35,500) to the Kirovles timber company.

13:56 18.07.2017

Kirovles demands $280,000 in damages from Navalny

The Kirovles timber company has filed a claim seeking more than 16 million rubles in damages (about $280,000) from opposition politician Alexey Navalny and two other defendants earlier convicted in embezzlement case.

11:06 15.06.2017

Russian lawyer gets 6.5 years in prison for $2.6 mln embezzlement

Moscow’s Nikulinsky District Court has sentenced lawyer Dionisy Zolotov to 6.5 years in prison for embezzling over 150 million rubles ($2.6 million).

10:58 10.04.2017

Moscow court to hear lawsuit seeking $258,000 from opposition activist Navalny

Moscow’s Nikulinsky District Court to hear arguments on Friday in a lawsuit which was filed by Kirovles company against opposition activist Alexei Navalny and his accomplices sentenced for embezzlement.

11:01 23.10.2015

Russian man gets 3 years for attempted fraud involving Rostec's research center

A court in Moscow sentenced Viktor Meshchenkov, director of a British Virgin Islands-based company, to three years in prison for attempted theft of 1.28 billion rubles ($25 million) from a research center affiliated with state-owned defense and technology holding Rostec.

17:53 27.04.2015