Finance Ministry ordered to pay Russian citizen $800 for unjustified prosecution
A court in Abakan, the capital city of the Russian Republic of Khakassia, has ordered the Finance Ministry to pay the local citizen Artem Yurchenko 50,000 rubles (about $800) in compensation for...
View ArticleInvestigators ask court to place Moscow poisoning case defendant in detention
Investigators have filed a motion to detain Murat Sabanov accused of poisoning and robbing people in central Moscow with the city’s Tagansky District Court.
View ArticleEx-official accused of forgery, abuse of office to stay jailed till late...
The Moscow City Court on Wednesday extended detention of ex-head of the Moscow Region’s Klin District Alexander Postrigan, who stands charged with abuse of power and forgery, for 3 months.
View ArticleOwner of major Russian car dealer suspected of $63.5 mln embezzlement
A criminal case has been opened against founder and owner of Rolf, one of the biggest automotive dealers and vehicle importers in Russia, Sergey Petrov, and some other top managers of the group of...
View ArticleRosneft subsidiaries’ ex-receiver to stay jailed till October in embezzlement...
The Moscow City Court on Thursday delivered a ruling extending detention of the former bankruptcy commissioner of several Russia’s Rosneft subsidiaries Oleg Smetanin charged with embezzling more than...
View ArticleDeposit insurance agency loses bid to seize $108 mln assets from ex-bankers
The Supreme Court of Russia has upheld rulings of lower courts which had refused to seize assets worth 7.1 billion rubles ($108 million) from five ex-managers of Renaissance bank on the request of the...
View ArticleEx-Transaero owner, his family ordered to pay nearly $1 mln to airline
The Thirteenth Commercial Court of Appeals has recovered about 60 million rubles (nearly $1 million) from ex-Transaero founder Alexander Pleshakov and his family at the suit of a bankruptcy supervisor...
View ArticleFour men get harsh sentence for taking part in attack against Russian troops...
Four men have been sentenced to long prison terms for involvement in the attack against members of Russian military forces in the Republic of Dagestan nearly 20 years ago, in August 1999.
View ArticleUralchem seeks to move dispute with Togliattiazot stockholders from Ireland...
A jurisdiction challenge filed by the fertilizer producer Uralchem in its dispute with four Togliattiazot offshore shareholders is currently pending in the Irish High Court. Uralchem believes that the...
View ArticleDamage caused by ex-Russian Highways chair exceeds $31.5 mln – investigators
Illegal actions of investigated Sergey Kelbakh, ex-chairman of the Russian Highways State Company (Avtodor), have caused damage estimated at more than 2 billion rubles ($31.5 million) to the state,...
View ArticleSentence of two former transport officials in bribery case mitigated
The Moscow City Court on Thursday commuted by 5 months prison sentence of the State Road Safety Authority ex-director convicted of bribery in transport management.
View ArticleProbe opened into thermal power station fire in Moscow Region
Probe was opened on Thursday into the large fire that occurred at a thermal cogeneration plant in the Moscow Region.
View ArticleEx-CEO of prominent construction firm files for bankruptcy
Ex-CEO of Mostovik construction firm Oleg Shishov has filed a petition for his own bankruptcy with a commercial court in Russia’s Omsk Region.
View ArticleThree Moscow Region medical officers charged with stealing expensive...
Charges have been brought against three medical workers from the Moscow Region, who had allegedly stolen high-priced drugs reserved for patients suffering from cancerous diseases.
View ArticleAlleged accomplice of Russian Pension Fund’s official detained in bribery case
Moscow’s Basmanny District Court on Friday ordered director of one of the departments of Technoserv Management company Alexey Kopeikin to be detained for two months as part of a bribery case involving...
View ArticleProsecutors’ $50 mln claim against convicted ex-regional mayor to be heard in...
The Supreme Court of Russia on Monday dismissed a statement of venue lodged by the Prosecutor General’s Office in relation to its claim to recover over 3.2 billion rubles (about $50 million) from...
View ArticleDetention of elderly scientist accused of treason extended for 3 months
The Moscow City Court on Tuesday prolonged detention term for Viktor Kudryavtsev, a 75-year-old scientist of the Central Research Institute for Engineering Technology (TsNIImash) charged with treason,...
View ArticleAppeal against Russian Pension Fund official’s detention in bribery case set...
The Moscow City Court will hear an appeal against detention of deputy board chairman of the Russian Pension Fund Alexey Ivanov in a 4.4-million-ruble bribery case on July 31.
View ArticleAppeal against sentence of Repin painting damage case convict to be heard on...
The Moscow City Court will consider an appeal filed by Igor Podporin, convicted of damaging Ilya Repin’s painting “Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan 16 November 1581” at the Tretyakov Gallery, against...
View ArticleMoscow court rules 13 Ukrainian sailors to be held in detention for another 3...
Moscow’s Lefortovsky District Court on Wednesday extended detention of 13 Ukrainian sailors charged with illegal border crossing in the Kerch Strait until October 24.
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