July 23rd, 2019
The Moscow City Court on Monday recalculated sentence given to Larisa Marchukova, the sister of a former financial director of Nota-bank Galina Marchukova, in a 350-million-ruble (about $5.5 million) embezzlement in accordance with new rules and freed her from custody, the court’s press service told RAPSI.
In July 2018,...
July 16th, 2019
Ex-Finance Minister of the Moscow Region Alexey Kuznetsov charged with embezzling over 11 billion rubles (nearly $200 million) will go on trial, the press service of the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office reports Monday.
Indictment has been already approved against the former official, the statement reads.
Investigators...
July 2nd, 2019
Ex-chief of the Federal Antimonopoly Service’s Dagestan Directorate Kubasay Kubasayev on Monday received 5 years in prison for taking over 2 million rubles in bribes (over $30,000), RAPSI reports from Moscow’s Lefortovsky District Court.
Additionally, he was fined 10.3 million rubles (nearly $170,000) and prohibited from taking...
June 24th, 2019
The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg on Thursday found ex-deputy director of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Nikolay Barinov guilty of taking about 110 million rubles (about $2 million) in bribes during a detention center construction and sentenced him to 3.5 years in high security prison, the United press service of...
June 21st, 2019
Investigators have filed a motion with court to detain businessman Vasily Boiko-Veliky and employees of Credit-Express bank as part of a case over embezzling more than $3.5 million, the Investigative Committee informs on its website.
According to the Investigative Committee’s news release, the case defendants along with the...
June 19th, 2019
A Moscow region official facing corruption charges has attempted suicide during a court hearing for a case he claims is politically motivated.
Alexander Shestun, the former head of the Serpukhov district, was arrested last summer on abuse-of-office charges. According to investigators, in 2008-2014 Shestun illegally transferred four...
June 11th, 2019
A Moscow court has sentenced a former anti-corruption official in the Interior Ministry to 13 years in prison after finding him guilty of large-scale bribery and obstruction of justice.
Dmitry Zakharchenko, who served as deputy head of the Interior Ministry’s economic security and anti-corruption office, was arrested in September...
June 10th, 2019
A Russian journalist known for investigating corruption among Moscow city officials has been detained by police and accused of drug offences, police said on Friday, but his lawyer, his employer and colleagues said he had been framed.
The journalist, 36-year-old Ivan Golunov, was detained in central Moscow on Thursday on his way to a...
June 7th, 2019
Russian economic growth is hampered by deep-seated corruption in the country’s legal system, the head of Russia’s auditing agency said Thursday.
Audit Chamber head Alexei Kudrin told a St. Petersburg International Economic Forum panel that corruption in the Russian judiciary system goes back centuries, pointing to one of the...
May 29th, 2019
With millions of dollars missing and officials in prison or fleeing the country, Russia's space sector is at the heart of a staggering embezzlement scheme that has dampened ambitions of recovering its Soviet-era greatness.
For years, Moscow has tried to fix the industry that was a source of immense pride in the USSR. While it has...
