The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has since January 2011 been the main federal investigating authority in Russia. Its name (Sledstvennyi komitet) is usually abbreviated to Sledkom. The agency replaced the Russian Prosecutor General’s Investigative Committee and operate as Russia's Anti-corruption agency. It is answerable to the President of Russia and has statutory responsibility for inspecting the police forces, combating police corruption and police misconduct and is responsible for conducting investigations into local authorities and federal governmental bodies.
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As part of a bribery case in Komi, the Investigative Committee detained two top managers of Viktor Vekselberg's companies: Managing Director of Renova, Yevgeny Olkhovik, and general director of T Plus, Boris Vainzikher. The third person involved is the former head of the T Plus and CEO of VimpelCom. Mikhail Slobodin, who said he was leaving VimpelCom at midnight.
Vedomosti found out what business do the close relatives of the head of the Federal Customs Service.
Kirov Oblast Governor Nikita Belykh was datained in Moscow on June 24. He is accused of receiving €400.000 for the cronyism of the local wood processing companies. One of these companies also appeared in another FSB case.
Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against former RusHydro head Yevgeny Dod, suspecting him of theft of 73.2 million rubles. The protege of Anatoly Chubais and Igor Sechin spoiled relations with those who supported him, say the managers familiar with the situation.
Former Chairman of the Board of JSC RusHydro was accused of fraud.
Students of the Park-Hotel Syamozero camp died, while rafting on the lake in Karelia during the storm. The Investigative Committee announced the arrest of two top managers of the company that organized the tour, and the two instructors who accompanied the children.
Chief engineer of the Ministry of Defense Project Institute is accused of embezzling 14 million rubles by concluding fictitious contracts
Records of a video register and weather cameras on Bolshoi Moskvoretsky bridge make the picture of what was happening before and after the assassination of the politician even more incomprehensible.
Fans in Marseille adequately represent the official policies and the mass consciousness of the post-Crimean Russia.
The office of "36.6" chain has been searched.
The Federation of Independent Trade Unions will celebrate May Day by conducting a march in support of the workers. As clarified by RBC, the budget of the largest trade union organization in the country is measured in billions of rubles, much of which is earned on the property, inherited from the Soviet Union for free.
Investigators charged the management of the "Volga-Vyatka construction company" with new episodes of fraud.
Defendants in the case of carving up the budget funds in the tax department will start getting acquainted with the materials.
The verdict to Sergey Pugachev will be announced by the High Court in London on February 11; the fugitive businessman can be convicted to two years in prison for contempt to court. Pugachev tried to convince RBC that the court decision does not threaten him.
Investigators tried twice to present charges in absentia to Ruslan Geremeev, a possible organizer of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, but both times the decision wasn't signed by the head of the Russian Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin.
They are not satisfied with the first version of the investigation.
The former head of Yukos is accused in absentia for the murder of the mayor of Nefteyugansk.
The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation established the exact date when preparations began for the assassination of Boris Nemtsov. This happened in September, 2014. The total payment for the crime committers should have been 15 million rubles. They were ready to murder Nemtsov as early as in October, but an opportunity turned up only four months later.
The Prosecutor General's request for the extradition of a defender in the case on theft of Stankoimport assets has been rejected.
Last year, the airline's profit fell by 36 times, and the debts increased almost threefold.
In St. Petersburg, Moscow, Samara, Saransk there are dozens of searches of scrap metal exporters. They are charged with 200 million rubles of illegal VAT, possibly up to 3 billion. Scrap metal was transported to Scotland on instructions from Israel.
UAE authorities released the Chechen crime lord Kazbek Dukuzov from prison; he is wanted for the murder of the chief editor of the Russian version of Forbes Paul Klebnikov.
The investigation is looking for a fictitious deputy of Alexander Bortnikov.
The former first vice-governor of Tyumen Oblast is wanted for bribing the police.
The number of defendants in the case has increased: it was found out that not only the management of Dalspetsstroy, but also the employees took bard in the embezzlement
Lots of pretenders claim Alexey Kuznetsov's property.
Open letter of the shareholder of Soyuz Corporation Andrey Baranov to Alexander Bastrykin.
Skolkovo Innovation Center was eastablished to show the world the triumph of the Russian science, but in recent years the project had been plagued by failures. Why Medvedev's modernization project stalled, as investigated by RBC reporters.