Cuban citizens face trial in Russia for attempting to cross border with U.S.
A court in Russia’s North-Eastern region of Chukotka will review a criminal case against two citizens of Cuba charged with attempting to illegally cross Russian border and reach U.S. state of Alaska.
View ArticleRussian Customs official arrested on suspicion of corruption
First Deputy Director of the Federal Customs Service’s Far Eastern Directorate Sergey Fedorov has been arrested on suspicion of taking bribes.
View ArticleRelease order of Ulmart co-owner Kostygin overturned
The St. Petersburg City Court on Wednesday overturned a lower court’s order to release a co-owner of Russian Internet retailer Ulmart Dmitry Kostygin, who stands charged with credit fraud, from house...
View ArticleCriminal case over cashing out of $122.8 million in Admiralteysky bank...
A criminal case against five residents of the Moscow region charged with unlawful bank activity in Admiralteysky bank estimated at 7 billion rubles ($122.8 million) has reached the Khamovnichesky...
View ArticleHigh-ranking customs official charged with corruption denied $88,000 bail
Moscow’s Basmanny District Court on Thursday refused to release First Deputy Director of the Federal Customs Service’s Far Eastern Directorate Sergey Fedorov charged with taking bribes on a...
View ArticleInvestigators seek to detain Dagestan antimonopoly official charged with...
Investigators have filed a motion with Moscow’s Basmanny District Court seeking to detain the chief of the Federal Antimonopoly Service’s Dagestan Directorate Kubasay Kubasayev charged with taking over...
View ArticleMoscow court dismisses Telegram users’ lawsuit against FSB
The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow has dismissed a class action lawsuit filed by users of Telegram messenger against the Federal Security Service (FSB).
View ArticleRussian Tax Service demands $5.8 million from VIM Airlines
The Federal Tax Service of Russia (FTS) has filed an application with the Commercial Court of Tatarstan seeking to include a 333.3-million-ruble debt (5.8 million) of troubled VIM Airlines in the list...
View ArticleDagestan antimonopoly official detained for 2 months in corruption case
Moscow’s Basmanny District Court on Friday ruled to put the chief of the Federal Antimonopoly Service’s Dagestan Directorate Kubasay Kubasayev charged with taking over 2.5 million rubles ($45,500) in...
View ArticleAppeal against $14,000 fine returned to Telegram
The Moscow City Court has returned an appeal against an 800,000-ruble fine ($14,000) for refusal to provide the Federal Security Service (FSB) with information on user messages decoding to Telegram...
View ArticleEx-staffers of Crimean government fined for illegal cryptocurrency mining
Two former staffers of the Crimean government office have been fined 30,000 rubles ($530) each for illegal cryptocurrency mining.
View ArticleSecond defendant in Crimea sabotage plot case goes on trial
A criminal case against Yevgeny Panov, a defendant in the case over sabotage plot in Crimea, has been forwarded to the republic’s Supreme Court for hearing.
View ArticleUkrainian journalist Sushchenko pleads not guilty to espionage
Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko pleaded not guilty to espionage during a hearing in the Moscow City Court on Tuesday.
View ArticleVnukovo ex-deputy customs chief receives suspended sentence for abuse of office
Former deputy chief of the Vnukovo airport’s customs Roman Kurzenkov has received a 2-year suspended sentence for abuse of office that led to considerable damage to social and state interests.
View ArticleIT contractor for FIFA 2018 World Cup files for bankruptcy
Asteros company, which was an IT contractor for the FIFA 2018 World Cup in Russia, has filed a petition for its own bankruptcy.
View ArticleFormer mayor Koshurnikov moved from detention center under house arrest
The Zavolzhsky Court of Yaroslavl has changed a measure of restraint for ex-mayor of Yaroslavl Denis Koshurnikov charged with embezzling funds of Rusnano state corporation from detention to house arrest.
View ArticleRussian court detains renter of mall where 64 persons died in fire
The Zavodsky Court of Kemerovo on Wednesday detained Nadezhda Suddenok, a renter of the city’s Zimnyaya Vishnya (“Winter Cherry”) mall which became a site of the nation-wide tragedy after a fire took...
View ArticleRussian citizen gets 4 years in absentia for fighting in Azov Battalion in...
Moscow’s Babushkinsky District Court has sentenced Russian national Roman Zheleznov to 4 years in prison in absentia for fighting as a mercenary of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi Azov Battalion in Donbass.
View ArticleProsecutor seeks to imprison alleged ISIS cell leader for 16 years
A prosecutor has asked a court to sentence Farkhod Nazarov, an alleged cell leader of the Islamic State terrorist organization prohibited in Russia, to 16 years in a high security penal colony.
View ArticleAlleged 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...
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