Businessman charged with $2.6 million embezzlement to go on trialProsecutors have approved indictment against businessman Vasily Boiko-Veliky charged with embezzling over 190 million rubles ($2.6 million) from Credit-Express bank.15:17 07.06.2021
Bill to empower prosecutors to represent Russia in ECHR to be heard as priorityThe State Duma Anti-Corruption Committee on Tuesday held that a draft law empowering the Prosecutor General's Office to represent the interests of the Russian Federation in international and foreign courts should be discussed as a matter of priority.12:49 02.06.2021
President Putin proposes to empower Prosecutor General's Office to represent Russia in ECHRRussian President Vladimir Putin has submitted to the State Duma a bill seeking to empower the Prosecutor General's Office to represent the interests of the Russian Federation in international and foreign courts.12:14 01.06.2021
Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office takes fatal Kazan school attack under special scrutinyThe Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation has taken special effort to control the investigation of the deadly school attack in Kazan, the capital of Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan, carried out by the regional prosecutor’s office.18:09 11.05.2021
Former manager of Credit-Express bank to be imprisoned for 3 years for embezzlementMoscow’s Cheremushkinsky District Court on Wednesday sentenced ex-head of a branch office of Credit-Express bank Elena Chuyeva to 3 years in penal colony for her involvement in large-scale embezzlement in the credit organization.17:24 28.04.2021
Regional developer gets 10 years in jail for apartment construction fraudA court in Russia’s Astrakhan has sentenced a local developer to 10 years in penal colony for the sale of apartments in buildings constructed without permission.12:47 27.04.2021
Prosecutors to check information on mass turtle mortality in regional reserve’s lakeProsecutors will check information on the mass mortality of turtles in a lake in the Voronezh biosphere reserve, according to a statement of the Prosecutor General’s Office.10:53 27.04.2021
Russian Investigative Committee registers falsification complaints of forensic study in Cherkalin caseRussia’s Investigative Committee and Prosecutor General’s Office have registered applications concerning falsification of the examination in a case of the Federal Security Service’s (FSB) colonel Kirill Cherkalin.18:57 21.04.2021
Prosecutor General’s Office asked to check correctness of forensic examination in Cherkalin caseThe Prosecutor General’s Office and the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation have received complaints about the unreliability of the forensic examination on the assessment of the market value of 49% participation interest in Yurpromconsulting LLC, and a statement on initiation of a criminal case against the investigators.18:44 16.04.2021
Over 8,500 complaints filed with prosecutors by federal ombudsman in 2020Federal Ombudsman Tatiana Moskalkova and submitted 8,587 applications to prosecutors, including 591 to the Prosecutor General’s Office, in 202010:43 16.04.2021
Prosecutors to receive powers to represent Russia’s interests in international courtsThe Justice Ministry will delegate its authority to represent interests of the Russian Federation in international and foreign courts to the Prosecutor General’s Office, according to Russia’s Justice Minister Konstantin Chuichenko.15:22 14.04.2021
Criminal case over illegal greenstone sale reaches courtA court in Russia’s Buryat Republic will consider a criminal case over illegal sale of semi-precious nephritic stone.15:45 26.03.2021
Ex-Culture official charged with Hermitage Museum embezzlement extradited from AustriaAustria extradited ex-director of the Culture Ministry’s department of property management and investment policy Boris Mazo charged with embezzlement of funds allocated for the construction works on the Hermitage Museum’s grounds, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia announced Thursday.13:00 25.03.2021
Ex-director of design institute where pirated software was used to be extradited to RussiaFormer director of the Arkhangelskgrazhdanproekt Design Institute Viktor Zhilin, accused in the case over the use of pirated software for design and drawing is to be extradited to Russia.17:28 24.03.2021
Persons accused of Amur sturgeon caviar resale face trial in Russia’s VladivostokA 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
Russia’s Ombudsman turns to prosecutors in defense of rights of arrested ChechensRussia’s Federal Ombudsman Tatiana Moskalkova has forwarded a plea in defense of the rights of a group of Chechens arrested in Nizhny Novgorod on terrorism allegations to the Prosecutor General’s Office.11:11 23.03.2021
Putin urges prosecutors to combat extremism, corruption and election fraudProsecutors must be more aggressive in the fight against extremism, nationalism, corruption and election fraud, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday during the extended meeting of the panel of the Prosecutor General’s Office.16:51 17.03.2021
Russian woman ordered to 3-year jail for $4.5 mln cigarette smugglingA 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
Prosecution demands 8-year prison terms for ex-investigators accused of briberyA prosecutor has demaded 8-year prison terms for two ex-investigators of the Investigative Committee’s Headquarters Sergey Dubinsky and Andrey Trinev charged with graft each.12:58 15.03.2021
Case over murder of notorious crime lord forwarded to courtProsecutors have sent a case over the murder of crime lord Vyacheslav “Yaponchik” Ivankov in July 2009 to court.10:59 12.03.2021