Russian Investigative Committee


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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Investigators sealed off Governor Khoroshavin's mansions

Officials19.03.2015

The Russian Investigative Committee does not exclude that the expensive houses and plots of land on the ruble, as well as apartments in luxury complexes in Moscow, were bought by Khoroshavin's family due to bribes and kickbacks.

Supply of uniforms for security forces is a very profitable business

Business16.03.2015

The garland has been gained by BTK Group owned by Mr. Bolloev.

Proton accident is attributed to negligence

Society12.03.2015

The Russian Investigative Committee accused Khrunichev Center supervisor of not noticing an error when installing the angular velocity sensors.

Under guard to the West: why governor Khoroshavin has been arrested

Officials05.03.2015

For the first time in many years an acting governor has been arrested. The head of Sakhalin Oblast Alexander Khoroshavin has been charged for bribery. According to one of the versions, the situation was triggered by the presidential envoy's desire to renew his team and the demonstration of the growing power of siloviki in Russia. 

Investigative Committee was asked to check Trust

Business12.01.2015

127 billion rubles necessary for the reorganization shocked market participants and aroused suspicions of deputies against the owners and management of the bank.

Workers of the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP asked the president to conduct a new investigation into the accident

Society26.12.2014

They do not believe in the conclusions of the examination; a corresponding letter to the Head of State was signed by 2000 people.

Gudkov outbid the Russian businessman upon purchase of a house in London

Society15.12.2014

Ex-deputy buys luxury apartments in the UK capital worth about 220 million rubles.

Shengelia lost on the Caribbean coast

Crime11.12.2014

The famous raiders from the "Barsukov's case" continue to disappear mysteriously. 

Investigators are looking in Scandinavia for money missing from Neva

Crime02.12.2014

The Russian Investigative Commitee does not rule out that the arrested CEO of the travel agency Neva Maksim Pirogov transferred hundreds of millions of rubles through the controlled Danish company Neva International Holding ApS.

Designer of the Vostochny Cosmodrome has been arrested

Crime21.11.2014

Sergey Ostrovsky is suspected of embezzlement of budget funds allocated for the design and construction.

The murder of a millionaire in France led to London

Crime17.11.2014

As Rosbalt found out, a criminal case under part 2 of article 105 of the Criminal Code (murder committed by group of persons) was initiated against the criminal "authority" Valid Lurahmaev (Validol) and Ahmad Hamidov.

Vnukovo vs. Sheremetyevo: will the disaster of Falcon accelerate the redistribution of the market for business aviation

Business06.11.2014

Vnukovo works at its limit, while Sheremetyevo starts an active campaign to attract new customers. Who will win the competition for the premium segment of the market?

Yevgeny Urlashov will celebrate New Year in a confinement cell

Crime01.10.2014

The Moscow City Court extended the arrest of the former mayor of Yaroslavl until January 3.

Investigation: how the owner of AFK Sistema Vladimir Yevtushenkov ended up under investigation

Business25.09.2014

Vladimir Yevtushenkov put under house arrest had helped to legalize Bashneft stolen from the state, according to investigators.

Ural Rakhimov checked for involvement in contract murders

Crime18.09.2014

Investigators are checking the testimony of a former senator Igor Izmestiev that the son of ex-president of Bashkiria paid for some murders by the "Kingisepp" organized criminal group.

In Moscow, Ukrainian oligarch Kolomoisky's property has been arrested

Business02.09.2014

On Monday, the bailiffs have seized Hotel Tavria in the Crimea, which belongs to the governor of the Dnepropetrovsk region.

Former head of Roskosmos invited to the Investigation Committee

Society13.08.2014

According to the Prosecutor General's Office, Anatoly Perminov abused power by authorizing the transaction by Khrunichev Center to acquire shares in the American company International Launch Services in 2008.

Russian taxes in the Swedish cosmetics

Business06.08.2014

The subsidiary company of Oriflame is suspected of tax dodging in the amount of 3.5 billion rubles.

The case against the former head of the Moscow Region Rosreestr recognized as fabricated

Crime22.07.2014

Offcials of the Investigative Committee closed the resonant criminal case on bribetaking of Olga Zhdanova in the amount of 1.3 million rubles, finding that the subordinates of General Kolesnikov had fabricated it.

The FSB knew about the palace coup in the Federal Tax Service

Officials08.07.2014

The FSB uncovered a plot against the chief of the Federal Tax Service of St. Petersburg Valentina Koryazina.

Management of the Federal Grid Company prepared escape hatches in the Czech Republic and the Emirates

Business01.07.2014

The management of state companies loves luxury foreign properties no less than the officials.

The assets worth 500 mln rubles were moved our from the March 8 Holding after its owner's death

Crime26.06.2014

Investigators opened a criminal case for falsification of constituent documents of the company, part of the furniture holding owned by Mikhail Kravchenko who had been murdered in 2012. 

"The picture case"

Society23.06.2014

A search at the Navalny's place has is no direct hit against the politician. However, the blow is directed against the investigations of the Anti-Corruption Foundation.

Investigator took the knock on a million bribe

Crime28.05.2014

Deputy head of the major investigation department of the central investigations office of the Investigative Committee Rashid Ancosi was arrested in Moscow, as the correspondent of The Moscow Post was informed by power structures.

Indemnity caught the ex-senator

Crime08.05.2014

Alexander Sabadash became a suspect in the case on illegal VAT refund business.

A criminal investigation is open against the president of RSC "Energia"

Crime16.04.2014

Vitaly Lopota is accused of causing damage to the company in the amount of 41 million rubles in the lending process of the project "Sea Launch".

The main defendant appears in the "helium case"

Crime15.04.2014

The Investigative Committee accuses the former head of the KRIOR Plant Vadim Udut of selling the helium production.

Ex-owner of "My Bank" Gleb Fetisov is detained

Business28.02.2014

The billionaire, who returned from abroad to answer the questions of investigators, may be arrested in the near future.