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Top official of Penitentiary Service, his deputy detained in corruption probe

Moscow's Khamovnichesky District Court ordered Yevgeny Verbetsky, chief of Moscow Probation Department at Federal Penitentiary Service, and his deputy Roman Klimenko to be detained on suspicion of corruption.

18:00 03.11.2016

Disabled Russian ex-colonel freed after being sentenced to 5 years in jail

Ex-colonel Yury Gaidukov was sentenced to five years in prison, fined 800,000 rubles (about $12,600) and freed on Thursday after the Moscow District Military Court learnt about his loss of sight.

17:20 03.11.2016

Russian ex-convict to get $3,000 compensation for tortures in prison

The Kalininsky District Court of Novosibirsk has ordered the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service’s Directorate General to pay 200,000 rubles ($3,000) in compensation to a released convict who was cruelly beaten by prison officers in 2014.

17:04 03.11.2016

Russian court unfreezes assets of Snoras bank after 40 bln rubles claim dropped

The Ninth Commercial Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court’s injunction ruling after the Moscow Commercial Court dropped a lawsuit filed by Russian businessman and former co-owner of the Lithuanian nationalized bank Snoras, Vladimir Antonov, seeking to collect more than 40 billion rubles ($642 million) from Lithuania.

16:04 03.11.2016

Moscow court seizes assets of ex-Yukos lawyer Ivlev

Moscow's Basmanny District Court ordered on Thursday the seizure of assets owned by Pavel Ivlev, an ex-Yukos official now living in the United States, who was charged with embezzlement and money laundering.

14:09 03.11.2016

More balanced approach needed to hate speech cases - Russian Supreme Court

Russia’s Supreme Court plenum had amended its resolution on crimes of extremist nature of 2011 clarifying, among other issues, those concerning the classification of actions related to publishing of information regarded as incitement of hatred and enmity on the Internet.

12:51 03.11.2016

Ex-top tourism official Amunts to stay in jail over embezzlement allegations

The Moscow City Court upheld the detention of Dmitry Amunts, former deputy head of the Federal Tourism Agency (Rosturizm), who is suspected of embezzling 29 billion rubles ($457 million) from now-defunct Mezhprombank.

10:44 03.11.2016

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