Detention of St. Petersburg Church of Scientology leaders extended once more
The St. Petersburg City Court has again extended detention for the Church of Scientology of St. Petersburg leader Ivan Matsitsky and the religious group’s chief accountant Sakhib Aliyev charged with...
View ArticleFormer Russian bailiff gets 5.5 years in prison for corruption
A court in Russia’s city of Syktyvkar, Komi Republic, has sentenced a former chief of a department of bailiffs to 5.5 years in prison for corruption.
View ArticleMoscow court upholds 8-year term of ex-Ergobank chair for embezzlement
The Moscow City Court on Friday dismissed an appeal against an 8-year prison sentence given to ex-board chairman of Ergobank Vyacheslav Barmin for embezzling 750 million rubles (about $12 million at...
View ArticleMoscow bar association president arrested, put in detention on embezzlement...
Sergey Yuryev, the chairman of Moscow's bar association Mezhregion, was arrested as part of a case over 1-billion-ruble embezzlement (about $16 million) from the State Air Traffic Management...
View ArticleRussian attorney’s lawsuits against ex-client over negative reviews dismissed
The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow has dismissed lawsuits filed by attorney Vladislav Kocherin against his former client over negative reviews published online.
View ArticleVKontakte users’ lawsuit over passing personal data to police dismissed
Four activists from Tatarstan, who had demanded 100,000 rubles (about $1,600) in compensation each from VKontakte social network for passing their personal data to police, were denied their...
View ArticleAssets of suspended Russian senator Arashukov seized
Moscow’s Basmanny District Court has ordered the seizure of assets belonging to the suspended Federation Council member Rauf Arashukov and other defendants in a case over large-scale embezzlement and...
View ArticleRussian Ombudsman hopes Vyshinsky case to be closed soon
MOSCOW, April 24 (RAPSI) – Russia’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Tatyana Moskalkova hopes that a criminal case against journalist Kirill Vyshinsky in Ukraine will be terminated in connection with...
View ArticleInvestigators seek detention for new defendants in case of suspended senator...
Investigators have filed a motion to detain two new defendants in a criminal case against suspended senator Rauf Arashukov and his father until June 23.
View ArticleDetention of Russian government airline’s deputy CEO extended till August
The Moscow City Court on Wednesday extended detention of the deputy CEO of the Special flight detachment Rossiya Andrey Tyurin, who stands charged with embezzling public funds, until August 11.
View ArticleTwitter appeals against $50 fine for storing Russian users’ data abroad
Twitter has lodged an appeal against a 3,000-ruble fine (about $50) imposed on the company for storing data of Russian users abroad, RAPSI has learnt in the Tagansky District Court of Moscow.
View ArticleRussian police arrest alleged thief of elk horns
Police in Russia’s Republic of Bashkortostan (Bashkiria) have arrested a man suspected of robbing a master selling elk horns souvenirs.
View ArticleParole petition of ex-penitentiary official’s accessory to embezzlement to be...
The Moscow City Court has overturned a lower court’s refusal to release an accomplice of ex-deputy chief of Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Oleg Korshunov, entrepreneur Marina Dyukova...
View ArticleConvicted ex-regional governor denied deferral of fine pay-out
Moscow’s Presnensky District Court on Thursday dismissed a motion to postpone a 48-million-ruble fine ($750,000) filed by ex-governor of the Kirov Region Nikita Belykh convicted of corruption.
View ArticleEurocommerce Bank $51mln embezzlement case reaches court
A criminal case over $3.3-billion-ruble (over $51 million) embezzlement from Eurocommerce Bank has been forwarded to Moscow’s Ostankinsky District Court for hearing.
View ArticleLawsuit against Russian lowcoster’s paid flight check-in dismissed
Moscow’s Sherbinsky District Court on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed by prosecutors against paid flight check-in set by Russia’s Pobeda air carrier for departure from foreign airports.
View ArticleTwo ex-security officers may be detained on fraud charges
Investigators have sought detention for two former Federal Security Service (FSB) officers accused of corruption crimes for 2 months.
View ArticleInvestigation into Russian man charged with illegal military group membership...
Investigation has been completed into Russian national Murat Kalmykov charged with participation in illegal military groups.
View ArticleEx-Moscow university student convicted of attempt to join ISIS released
Varvara Karaulova, ex-student of the Moscow State University sentenced to 4.5 years for attempting to join the Islamic State (ISIS) militants in Syria, left prison on Saturday morning.
View ArticleIPC upholds dismissal of Rosgosstrakh claim to prohibit ex-subsidiary use of...
Russia’s Intellectual Property Court (IPC) has upheld a ruling of a commercial court dismissing a claim of insurer Rosgosstrakh, which sought to oblige its former subsidiary Rosgosstrakh-Meditsina...
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