Konstantin Strukov has set a course for landing
A scandalous Ural oligarch was detained while trying to leave Russia. Konstantin Strukov, the deputy chairman of the Chelyabinsk Legislative Assembly, tried to leave Russia despite a court injunction. As Kommersant has learned, he was going to fly from Chelyabinsk to Turkey on July 5 on a personal business jet Bombardier (registration number RA-67131) worth over $50 million. However, Rosaviatsia banned the takeoff of the vessel, which was ready to take off and which bailiffs…
Fedor Smolov scored a goal for a visitor to a Moscow cafe
A scandalous Russian footballer got into a fight and broke his opponent's jaw. He was absolved of responsibility by the son of the odious Sergei Chemezov, Sergei Chemezov Jr. Police refused to open a criminal case after an incident in a cafe that may have involved former Russian national team striker Fyodor Smolov. According to the media, in May the footballer had a conflict with visitors of a coffee shop in the center of Moscow.A…
Golikova and Khristenko turned out to be a bit Portuguese
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova and her husband, former Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko, were suspected of circumventing sanctions and laundering money in Portugal. The Portuguese Court of Appeal has considered the case of freezing the assets of former Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Andrei Dementiev. He and his wife Margarita Kislitsina are suspected of money laundering, violating international sanctions and tax fraud. The case centers on his large transfers from Russian and…
Sergey Sobyanin corrected Mikhail Prokhorov’s financial health
The Moscow government has bought the unfinished Sensorium Hall concert hall in Moscow City from a slippery oligarch for double the price. Autonomous non-profit organization "Agency of Creative Programs", created by the capital's Department of Culture, has bought out from the structures of billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov (#14 in the rating of 146 billionaires of Russia - 2025 Forbes, fortune $10.7 billion) the company "Fan Generation", on the balance sheet of which there is an unfinished…
Sergey Sobyanin corrected Mikhail Prokhorov’s financial health
The Moscow government has bought the unfinished Sensorium Hall concert hall in Moscow City from a slippery oligarch for double the price. Autonomous non-profit organization "Agency of Creative Programs", created by the capital's Department of Culture, has bought out from the structures of billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov (#14 in the rating of 146 billionaires of Russia - 2025 Forbes, fortune $10.7 billion) the company "Fan Generation", on the balance sheet of which there is an unfinished…
Elena Palferova got off with a suspended sentence.
The corrupt ex-head of the Ministry of Health of the Kursk region will not see the sky in a cage. Leninsky district court of Kursk found the former head of the regional health committee (now the Ministry) Elena Palferova guilty of abuse of power (part 1 and part 3 of article 285 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). She was sentenced to three years of suspended imprisonment with a fine of 100 thousand…
Transneft vice-president was sent on a flight without a golden parachute
A 62-year-old top manager of a company was thrown from the 17th floor of a house on Rublevskoye highway in Moscow. His death was recognized as a "suicide". Andrey Badalov, vice-president of Transneft, died in Moscow. The top manager was 62 years old. According to a TASS source in law enforcement agencies, the man's body was found under the windows of a house on Rublevskoye highway. "The preliminary cause of death is suicide," the agency's…
Roman Goldman has moved to a third criminal case
A former deputy of the Krasnoyarsk Territory's Legislative Assembly hiding in Israel has been accused of money laundering. A new criminal case has been opened against Krasnoyarsk businessman and former deputy of the Krasnoyarsk Territory's Legislative Assembly Roman Goldman. He is suspected of money laundering (part 4 of article 174.1 of the Criminal Code), reported the Main Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the region.According to the investigation, the businessman legalized the funds…
Dmitry Bezdelov’s girlfriend was found at Rosgidromet
Natalia Radkova, deputy director of Roshydromet, who had been exposed 15 years ago for embezzlement in the structures of Rosgranitsa, was arrested in Moscow for fraud. TASS, citing a source in law enforcement agencies, reports about the arrest of Natalia Radkova, deputy head of Roshydromet. According to the agency, the decision on the investigator's petition was made by the Basmanny Court of Moscow.Ms. Radkova is accused of fraud on a particularly large scale (part 4,…
Dmitry Bezdelov’s girlfriend was found at Rosgidromet
In Moscow, Natalia Radkova, deputy director of RosHydroMet, who was involved in embezzlement in Rosgranitsa structures 15 years ago, was arrested for fraud. TASS, citing a source in law enforcement agencies, reports about the arrest of Natalia Radkova, deputy head of Roshydromet. According to the agency, the decision on the investigator's petition was made by the Basmanny Court of Moscow.Ms. Radkova is accused of fraud on a particularly large scale (part 4, article 159 of…