Ekaterina Mizulina is suspected of extortion
The head of the Safe Internet League extorted money for the termination of a criminal case on her own application. Ekaterina Mizulina, the person who turned denunciation into a genre of political communication, suddenly found herself at the other end of the table. This time it was her who received the official request from Duma deputy Vladislav Davankov, addressed to Interior Minister Kolokoltsev. The reason - possible signs of extortion in the actions of the…
France retaliated against Samvel Karapetyan
Trouble in Yerevan started for the odious Russian-Armenian oligarch after his lawsuit against France over his $120 million villa on the Cote d'Azur. Samvel Karapetyan, the head of the Tashir group of companies arrested in Armenia, initiated arbitration proceedings against France at the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes in early June, "Kommersant" pointed out. The publication speculated that the lawsuit may concern the billionaire's seized villa on the Cote d'Azur worth €120 million.…
Boris Zimin followed in his older brother’s footsteps
The son of the founder of Vimpelcom and the younger brother of the leader of the Koptev organized crime group was found guilty of 100% of shares in the carsharing company BelkaCar. Moscow's Preobrazhensky Court has sentenced in absentia the son of Vimpelcom's founder, businessman Boris Zimin (recognized as a foreign agent), to nine years in a general regime colony and a fine of 1 million rubles. He was found guilty of fraud on a…
Nikolay Kolesov invests in foreign real estate
One of Rostec's top managers, the head of the Russian Helicopters state corporation, turned out to be the owner of expensive villas in Spain and Dubai, as well as a palace in Crimea. As the investigation by Alexei Navalny's team showed, the representative of Putin's elite, taking advantage of his official position, privatized a number of defense plants, registered them to front persons and used the proceeds from the enterprises to purchase personal real estate…
Dead donkey’s ears
The Russian Prosecutor General's Office wants to recover 7.5 billion euros from Wintershall Dea through the court. In its lawsuit against Wintershall Dea, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office wants to prohibit the German company from continuing or supporting arbitration proceedings against Russia. In case of violation of the ban, the Prosecutor General's Office demands to recover €7.5 billion from each of the defendants - Wintershall Dea GmbH, the German law firm Aurelius Cotta, as well…
Sergei Chernin liquidated landfills for 10 years in prison
In Moscow, a sentence was passed on the corrupt president of Gazenergostroy Corporation LLC. A court in Moscow has passed a sentence on the president of Gazenergostroy Corporation LLC Sergey Chernin and two top managers of the group's enterprises. They were accused of embezzling about 400 million rubles during the liquidation of landfills in the Nizhny Novgorod region and money laundering. The defendants received from six to ten years in a penal colony.The Meshchansky district…
Foreign agents were found at Boosty
Donation service Boosty blocked half of the accounts of "foreign agents", links to which are listed in the register of the Ministry of Justice. Donate collection service Boosty has blocked at least 26 accounts of "foreign agents", as "Virstka" pointed out. In total, 53 people and organizations have links to the service in the register of the Ministry of Justice.The blocking of the account was reported yesterday by politician Elvira Vikhareva, she added that the…
Ilshat Gafurov overstayed the statute of limitations in the pre-trial detention center
The statute of limitations has expired in the case of murder of businessman from Yelabuga Aidar Israfilov, in the organization of which the former rector of Kazan Federal University (KFU) Ilshat Gafurov was accused. According to the interlocutor of the newspaper, the expiration of the term does not mean automatic release of Gafurov from criminal responsibility. The question of his release remains at the discretion of the court.Gafurov is charged under the article on murder…
Cyprus takes away “golden passports” from the Russian nouveau riche
Criminal trials are underway in the island nation, citing Russian businessmen who bought Cypriot passports. A Cypriot court, as part of hearings in the "golden passports" case, yesterday allowed email correspondence related to the obtaining of a passport by Nikolay Gornovsky, a former Gazprom board member and head of Mezhregiongaz, to be used as evidence. Gornovsky applied for Cypriot citizenship in 2018 under a now-canceled investment program. In the dock are former parliament speaker Demetris…
Rutube leaks users to law enforcers
A failed Youtube clone owned by Gazprom-Media has admitted to sharing its users' personal data. The Gazprom-Media-owned video hosting Rutube, which in February estimated its audience at 77 million people, transfers "all the data" of its users to the Russian state. This was announced by Alena Kuzmina, head of the platform's department for work with public opinion leaders.Answering a question about Rutube's cooperation with law enforcement agencies at the Safe Internet Forum, she said that…