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...
December 27th, 2018The Moscow City Court has overturned a lower court’s ruling on extension of detention for a former deputy chief of the Federal Agency for Special Construction (Spetsstroy) Alexander Mordovets, who stands charged with receiving bribes, the court’s press service has told RAPSI.
The Khamovnichesky District Court in November extended...
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...
