December 13th, 2018An official at Russia's Rostransnadzor federal transportation watchdog was fired earlier this year after his wife purchased 66 cars for personal use, the country’s top prosecutor has said.
In the first nine months of this year, 908 public officials have been fired in Russia over violations related to corruption, Russia’s...
December 6th, 2018Russia has asked Italy to drop charges against a former ambassador caught up in a Nigerian corruption case, legal documents showed on Wednesday.
Ednan Tofik ogly Agaev, a former Russian ambassador in Colombia, is charged with international corruption in a case revolving around the 2011 purchase by oil majors Eni and Shell of...
November 20th, 2018The head of a security subsidiary of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom has been detained over a $38,000 bribe given in annexed Crimea, security forces said on Monday.
The head of another Rosatom subsidiary had been charged in the U.S. in 2014 for soliciting a bribe in exchange for contracts to ship uranium to the United...
November 12th, 2018Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, who is a formal suspect in an investigation into corruption and influence-peddling in Monaco, is now back in Moscow, his representative told Reuters on Saturday.
Earlier this week, police in Monaco had detained the billionaire, who also owns soccer club AS Monaco, for questioning as part of the...
November 2nd, 2018A court in the Stavropol Territory has sentenced Makhach Aliyev, a former judge from Makhachkala, the capital of Russia’s Republic of Dagestan, to 3 years in high security prison for extorting 500,000 rubles (about $8,000) from the mother of one of persons on trial, the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office has...
October 25th, 2018Two local officials reportedly threw a 300,000 ruble ($4,500) cash bribe out of their car while being chased by police in Russia's Leningrad region.
The head of the Toksovo village, accompanied by a local deputy, received the 300,000 ruble bribe from the director of a local energy utility center on Sunday in exchange for a signed act...
October 9th, 2018President and co-owner of Compulink, one of Russia’s largest group of IT companies, Mikhail Lyashch has been charged with embezzlement, RAPSI correspondent reports from the Moscow City Court.
Lyashch was arrested on September 21 on suspicion of large-scale embezzlement. Following his arrest, Compulink released a statement saying...
September 11th, 2018The Moscow City Court has upheld extension of detention for the former Russian anti-corruption official Dmitry Zakharchenko charged with corruption crimes, the court’s press service has told RAPSI.
On July 12, the Investigative Committee reported transfer of 9 billion rubles ($131 million) owned by Zakharchenko and his relatives to...
July 20th, 2018The Moscow District Military Court has sentenced Vyacheslav Varchuk, the former commander-in-chief of the Interior Ministry’s internal troops, to 6 years in a high security penal colony for taking an especially large-scale bribe, RAPSI correspondent reports from the courtroom.
The defendant was also fined 20 million rubles...
July 17th, 2018Moscow’s Meshchansky District Court has ruled to detain Yury Malyshev, the Federal Air Transport Agency’s (Rosaviation) deputy head, who stands charged with taking bribes, the court’s spokesperson Yulia Kotomina has told RAPSI.
Malyshev has been put in detention until September 8. The official could face up to 15 years in prison...
