Ex-Russian penitentiary official to stay detained in embezzlement case until...
Moscow’s Basmanny District Court on Friday extended the detention of former Deputy chief of the Federal Penitentiary Service’s (FSIN) financial and economic directorate Svetlana Alekseyeva charged with...
View ArticleSt. Petersburg court extends house arrest of Russian e-commerce giant’s co-owner
The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg on Friday extended the house arrest of Dmitry Kostygin, a co-owner of Russian Internet retailer Ulmart, charged with credit fraud, until February 14.
View ArticleRussian businessman’s sentence for hostage taking becomes final
The Supreme Court of Russia on Tuesday upheld a 12-year prison sentence given to businessman Aram Petrosyan for taking hostages and threating to trigger an explosion in a Moscow bank.
View ArticleItaly refuses to extradite alleged accomplice of Berezovsky’s son-in-law to...
An Italian court has denied Russia’s request to extradite businessman Mikhail Nekrich, an alleged accomplice of Georgy Shuppe, the son-in-law of late prominent tycoon Boris Berezovsky.
View ArticleChinese citizen gets suspended term in Russia for painting smuggling attempt
Chinese citizen Xu Chao has received a 2.5-year suspended sentence for an attempt to smuggle a work by the Russian landscape painter Alexey Savrasov.
View ArticleTerrorists behind hostage crisis in Russia’s Budyonnovsk sentenced to 13-15...
The North Caucasus District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has sentenced Ramzan Belyalov and Magomed Mazdayev to 15 and 13 years in a penal colony for attack and taking hostages in Russian town of...
View ArticleProsecutors appeal return of Rusnano ex-head’s case
Prosecutors have appealed a ruling of the Cheremushkinsky District Court of Moscow returning them an embezzlement case against former head of the state-owned technology corporation Rusnano, Leonid...
View ArticleInvestigation 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.
View ArticleUlyukayev’s assets to remain seized until $2.2 mln fine paid – court
Assets belonging to the former economy minister of Russia Alexey Ulyukayev sentenced on Friday to 8 years in high security prison for bribery will remain seized until he pays a 130-million-ruble fine...
View ArticleGambling and alcohol abuse may deprive seniors of alimony from children –...
Addiction to gambling or alcohol may deprive senior parents of alimony from children, the clarification issued by the Russian Supreme Court’s board reads.
View ArticleRussian citizens’ alimony debt reaches over $1.7 bln – Supreme Court
Amount of alimony debt has reached more than 100 billion rubles ($1.7 billion) in Russia.
View ArticleCitizen of Norway suspected of espionage appeals his detention in Russia
Norwegian citizen Frode Berg, a suspect in an espionage case, has appealed a ruling of the Lefortovsky District Court of Moscow putting him in detention.
View ArticleRussian Supreme Court recognizes Transaero’s $655.8 mln debt before Irish firm
The Supreme Court of Russia has upheld a lower court’s ruling including a 38.3 billion-ruble (about $655.8 million) debt owed by bankrupt Transaero airline before Irish company VEBL-767-300 in the...
View ArticleTwo defendants in Vostochny Cosmodrome embezzlement case to remain in jail
The Far East District Military Court in Khabarovsk has upheld a lower court’s ruling to change a measure of restraint for two defendants in the case over embezzling 5.2 billion rubles (about $89...
View ArticleRussian hacking group leader sentenced to 2 years in prison seeks parole
Vladimir Anikeyev, the leader of Russia’s hacking group Shaltai-Boltai, or Humpty Dumpty, who had been sentenced to 2 years in prison, filed a motion for parole.
View ArticleCriminal case opened in Bulgaria on complaint of Russian businessman Andrey...
The prosecutor's office of the city of Silistra on the complaint of Russian businessman Andrey Varganov opened a criminal case against his former business partner Chudomir Dobrev Ivanov for a number of...
View ArticleRussian court approves amicable agreement between Rosneft and AFK Sistema
The Commercial Court of the Republic of Bashkortostan has approved an amicable agreement in a 170.6-billion-ruble dispute (about $2.9 billion) between AFK Sistema, Sistema-Invest, and Rosneft oil...
View ArticleAppeal against recovery of $185 million in favor of Rosneft to be reviewed in...
The Ninth Commercial Court of Appeals has postponed hearing of an appeal, filed by Cypriot company Swisspro Capital Limited against a lower court’s ruling recovering $184.8 million in favor of Russia’s...
View ArticleGazprombank demands $19 mln from Russian lawyer
Gazprombank has filed a petition with the Moscow Region Commercial Court seeking to include a 1.1-billion-ruble debt ($19 million) of businessman and lawyer Dmitry Yakubovsky in the list of creditors'...
View ArticleRussian Supreme Court upholds sentence of "Crossbow Coup" plotter for...
The Supreme Court of Russia on Thursday upheld a 1.5-year prison sentence given to retired Russian military intelligence colonel Vladimir Kvachkov, who is currently serving a term for attempted...
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