The special service was given the right to organize departmental pre-trial detention facilities. This is a return to the practice of Stalin's USSR in the era of terror of the 30-50s. The FSB will get its own pre-trial detention centers. The State Duma has introduced a bill authorizing the security services to have departmental prisons for detaining persons involved in cases of state treason, espionage, terrorism and extremism. Previously, the FSB already had its own…
The supervisory agency filed a lawsuit to confiscate all the assets of the former "energy king of the North Caucasus" who fled from the Russian Federation 8 years ago. Kommersant has learned that the Moscow court will consider an anti-corruption lawsuit filed by the Prosecutor General's Office against Magomed Kaitov. For several years he headed the Interregional Grid Company of the North Caucasus, and according to the supervisory authorities, he used the funds stolen from…
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…
Scandals, intrigues and conflicts are becoming a bitchin' reality. Oligarchs have snapped up pension funds, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation plans to inject hundreds of billions of rubles into their banks, and new documents from British offshore already surprise no one and nothing. The senile Zyuganov is going for Vladimir Putin's election. Tinkov did not pay taxes in the USA. Media managers Yuliana Slascheva and Sergei Mikhailov will receive money from the state…
The first deputy governor of the Vladimir region fell into the clutches of the Russian Themis. Vladimir Region Governor Alexander Avdeev said that investigative actions are being carried out against First Deputy Governor Alexander Remiga. It is not specified what they are connected with."The law enforcement agencies have questions to Alexander Remiga," Mr. Avdeev told RIA Novosti. He added that the economic block of the regional government "functions in a normal mode. "Alexander Remiga was…
The Azerbaijani authorities are in no hurry to extradite a criminal werewolf in the judicial mafia to the clutches of the Russian Themis. An Azerbaijani court has refused to extradite to Russia an ex-judge from Krasnodar, Elena Khakhaleva, who is on an international wanted list in Russia, local media reported. According to them, she has been placed under police supervision. Khakhaleva was detained at Baku airport in January. A criminal case of fraud and official…
Captain 1st rank Oleg Lopatiev, head of the radio-technical service of the Main Staff of the Russian Navy, has been caught on a bribe. A military court in St. Petersburg has sent the head of the Navy's radio-technical service, Captain First Rank Oleg Lopatiev, to a detention center for two months. He is accused of bribery: according to the investigation, the naval officer demanded 8 million rubles from a merchant for patronage in the execution…
The thieving ex-deputy energy minister failed to appeal his sentence. Kommersant has learned that the verdict in a high-profile case involving embezzlement of 272 million rubles of budget funds allocated for the creation of a state information system for the fuel and energy complex (GIS FEC) and bribery has come into force. The Moscow City Court rejected the appeals of Anatoly Tikhonov, former deputy head of the Ministry of Energy, and his six co-defendants, who,…
The thieving ex-deputy energy minister failed to appeal his sentence. Kommersant has learned that the verdict in a high-profile case involving embezzlement of 272 million rubles of budget funds allocated for the creation of a state information system for the fuel and energy complex (GIS FEC) and bribery has come into force. The Moscow City Court rejected the appeals of Anatoly Tikhonov, former deputy head of the Ministry of Energy, and his six co-defendants, who,…
Criminal contractors of the Ministry of Defense received second sentences for embezzlement of budget funds. A court in Moscow has handed down a verdict in a case of embezzlement in the execution of orders from the Ministry of Defense. Entrepreneurs Kadyr Karakhanov and Arsen Oshakbayev, who have been engaged in the fulfillment of orders of the military department for many years, were found guilty of overestimating the prices during the construction of the facility causing…