Dmitry Barykin has been placed under arrest in absentia.
The former chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod City Duma and CEO of Krasny Anchor OJSC was arrested for fraud. Tverskoy district court of Moscow at the request of the investigation arrested in absentia for two months the former chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod City Duma (2018-2020) and CEO of JSC "Red Anchor" Dmitry Barykin. He is charged with four episodes of especially large-scale fraud (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the…
Alexei Goreslavsky sawed off another 100 million rubles
The developers of Cyberia Nova's failed game "Distemper" spent the Internet Development Institute's money on a boorish promo. The cost of developing the game, which has not yet reached release, has already amounted to 500 million rubles. This year, the Internet Development Institute (IDI), headed by scandalous media technologist Alexei Goreslavsky, poured another 100 million rubles into the Cyberia Nova development company.Observers wondered at the time why the IDI was buying up advertising and praise…
Telegram review: bank consolidation through the conflict between the Central Bank of Russia and law enforcers
The head of the Central Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina warned that by 2020 the number of Russian commercial banks will be reduced at least twice more. This means the denationalization of the financial and banking sector, but the head of the regulator sees nothing bad in this. The only problem is the opposition of law enforcers, who are deprived of controlled credit institutions. And the tough conflict between the Bank of Russia and the…
Russian digitalization turned out to be a sieve
In 2024, personal data of 90% of Russians leaked out of databases to the public. In 2023 and the first half of 2024, the main source of personal data leaks were online stores and medical institutions, while banks accounted for no more than 2%, said Stanislav Kuznetsov, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of Sberbank (MOEX: SBER). He called the situation with the leaks deplorable, specifying that personal data of about 90% of the adult…
Roman Stefanov mixed cocaine with gas.
The head of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Tambov was sent to a pre-trial detention center in a drug case. The Leninsky District Court of Tambov has remanded General Director of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Tambov Roman Stefanov in custody for two months. As follows from the message of the united press service of the judicial system of the region, he is accused of large-scale drug possession (part 2 of article 228 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation,…
The Ministry of Finance lost more than 100 tons of gold in the NWF
In 2024, only 188 tons of the 359 tons of gold left in the National Welfare Fund. Of these, more than 112 tons have disappeared without a trace. Transactions with Russia's National Welfare Fund are increasingly moving into the "shadow" mode as the "cube", which has been saved up for years at the expense of oil super-profits, is approaching exhaustion.In 2024, more than 100 tons of gold left the NWF as a result of transactions…
Roskomnadzor has started a census of bloggers
Some bloggers fear that their personal data will end up in the hands of the re-sellers pretty quickly. About 13,000 people have submitted data about themselves for registration in the state register of bloggers, the Russian Ministry of Digitization reported. Such a form appeared on the portal of state services just four days ago. For owners of "personal pages" with an audience of 10 thousand subscribers or more, registration there is mandatory. Punishment for refusal…
Anzhela Sergeeva pocketed 2 billion rubles from her bank
The ex-owner of BBB bank is on trial in the Yaroslavl region. The Prosecutor General's Office has approved the indictment in the criminal case on embezzlement of about 2 billion rubles from the bankrupt Sevastopol bank BBB. After that, a case of laundering of part of the stolen money was initiated against two of its defendants, including the actual owner of the credit institution Angela Sergeeva. The results of the investigation will be considered in…
Vladislav Loginov got caught on a bribe
The mayor of Krasnoyarsk is arrested for corruption on a large scale. Krasnoyarsk Mayor Vladislav Loginov was detained in the morning of June 9 on suspicion of taking a bribe on a particularly large scale, sources in law enforcement agencies told TASS and the Krasnoyarsk edition of Ngs24.ru. According to the latter, the city administration is currently being searched, but the mayor's office has not officially commented on this information. Also investigative actions are taking…
In Dagestan, the business empire of the republic’s state secretary has come under attack
The corrupt Magomed-Sultan Magomedov was arrested. As part of the investigation into the criminal case of illegal privatization, law enforcers have detained Dagestan State Secretary Magomed-Sultan Magomedov, as well as many of his relatives and work colleagues, a law enforcement source told Kommersant.This morning law enforcement officers searched more than 50 addresses connected with Dagestan's state secretary Magomedov, as well as with SMB Holding LLC, which includes Dagnefteprodukt."A criminal case has been opened over illegal…