April 11th, 2019The former mayor of Russia’s Far East capital of Vladivostok has been sentenced to 15 years behind bars on charges of large-scale commercial bribery and abuse of power.
Igor Pushkaryov was detained in June 2016 on accusations of abusing his authority to mastermind a large-scale trade deal between the local government and a building...
March 29th, 2019Russia on Thursday detained a former cabinet minister and oil executive on suspicion of defrauding Russian oil giant Rosneft, the Investigative Committee’s spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said.
Viktor Ishaev, who is the second former minister from Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s cabinet to be detained this week, is accused of...
March 28th, 2019More than 1,300 Russian state officials suspected of violating corruption rules were fired for loss of trust last year, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
Russia ranks among the world’s most corrupt countries. Observers have criticized anti-graft campaigns under President Vladimir Putin’s rule as ineffective.
The Prosecutor...
March 22nd, 2019Corruption in Russia’s military has quadrupled to 7 billion rubles ($109.8 million) last year, the top federal military prosecutor said on Thursday.
Russia ranks among the world’s most corrupt countries in international ratings, with corruption-related crimes costing an estimated $2.5 billion in damages between 2014 and 2017....
March 7th, 2019A Russian telecommunications company agreed to pay $850 million to resolve federal bribery charges, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Wednesday.
Mobile TeleSystems PJSC bribed an Uzbek official who was a relative of the former president of Uzbekistan to win business in the country, the SEC said. The bribe enabled MTS to...
February 26th, 2019Prosecutors have launched a probe into allegations that a South Korean diplomat with ties to the ruling party took kickbacks from a real estate developer in return for job favors, its officials said Monday.
The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office is looking into allegations that Woo Yoon-keun, ambassador to Russia, received 10...
January 30th, 2019Russia’s Justice Ministry has proposed to stop punishing officials implicated in bribery or other acts of corruption under “exceptional circumstances” in new draft legislation, following a plan set by Russian President Vladimir Putin last year.
Putin proposed the measure in an anti-corruption plan signed in June 2018 that called...
January 21st, 2019The Arkhangelsk Regional Court will consider a criminal case against a former chief of the Interior Ministry’s regional department on economic security and corruption control, who stands charged with receiving a bribe worth over 3 million rubles (over $45,000), the press service of Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office reports...
January 15th, 2019The Moscow City Court on Monday upheld a ruling extending the seizure of property belonging to ex-Deputy Culture Minister Grigory Pirumov charged with $7 million embezzlement, RAPSI reports from the courtroom.
Thus, the court upheld the seizure of the defendant’s Moscow real property, land plots and residential houses.
Assets of...
January 4th, 2019France has extradited a former finance minister of the Moscow region suspected of embezzling $200 million, five years after Russian prosecutors had put in an extradition request.
Alexei Kuznetsov was put on an international wanted list after he left Russia in 2008 for charges of fraud, embezzlement and money laundering. Prosecutors...
