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Developer accused of $31 mln embezzlement freed from detention, put under house arrest

Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court on Monday held to release the owner of Optima Development construction company Albert Khudoyan charged with a 2-billion-ruble embezzlement (over $31 million) from detention.

19:02 11.11.2019

St. Petersburg university professor detained on student murder allegations

A professor of the St. Petersburg State University Oleg Sokolov, who had pleaded guilty to the murder of the postgraduate student Anastasia Yeshchenko, on Monday was ordered to be placed in detention until January 8.

18:01 11.11.2019

Alleged members of banned extremist movement plead not guilty to terrorist plot

Associates of Vyacheslav Maltsev, an alleged leader of the Artpodgotovka civil movement banned as extremist, on Monday pleaded not guilty to preparing a terrorist attack and participating in a terrorist association.

17:09 11.11.2019

Prosecution witness in General Drymanov’s case refuses to testify in court

A prosecution witness in a corruption case against ex-director of the Investigative Committee's Main Investigations Directorate, General Alexander Drymanov, on Monday refused to testify in the Moscow City Court.

16:26 11.11.2019

Moscow court to proceed with case against ex- confectionary owner accused of murder

The Moscow City Court will proceed with a case against Ilya Averyanov, former owner of Moscow’s confectionary Menshevik, who had allegedly killed a guard during the shooting on the factory’s premises, on November 12.

15:55 11.11.2019

Ex-Deputy Culture Minister’s house arrest in $7 mln embezzlement case extended to Feb 16

The Moscow City Court has extended house arrest of ex-Deputy Culture Minister Grigory Pirumov for 3 months as part of a 450-million-ruble (about $7 million) embezzlement case.

14:28 11.11.2019

Arrest of Ukrainian developer in absentia in $220 mln embezzlement case overturned

The Moscow City Court on Monday overturned a lower court’s ruling on arrest of the Ukrainian-born founder of MosCityGroup developing company Pavel Fuks, who stands charged with the 14-billion-ruble embezzlement (about $220 million), in absentia.

13:41 11.11.2019

Moscow court again stays Vkontakte’s lawsuit against Double Data

The Moscow Commercial Court has suspended a lawsuit filed by Vkontakte social network against Double Data seeking to cancel the latter company’s use of open data provided by users on the social network to sell its own services.

12:54 11.11.2019

Investigators seek for house arrest of detained businessman in $31 mln embezzlement case

Investigators are seeking for release for the owner of Optima Development construction company Albert Khudoyan charged with a 2-billion-ruble embezzlement (over $31 million) from detention.

11:53 11.11.2019

All captured Far East whales released – Russia's human rights body

All orca whales and white whales, which had been illegally captured in the Primorsk Territory of Russia’s Far East, were returned to the high sea, the press service of the Presidential Council for Human Rights reports Monday.

10:58 11.11.2019

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