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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Senior investigators of the MIA became defendants in a criminal case on abuse of power. However, the Basmanny court refused to arrest them.
In Russia, Alexey Kuznetsov is accused of embezzling billions of dollars.
After the last year's shocking story of the Tatarstan police officers raping a 52-year-old man with a bottle, thus causing his death, new cases of tortures in the republic have been found.
The gambling cas, which had caused a confrontation between the Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor General's Office, led to a new conflict. This time, between the Investigative Committee and the Supreme Court.
The investigation against the former head of OAO Slavyanka has been finished.
The Russian Investigative Committee refused to close the criminal case against the former employees of the Interior Ministry of the Russian Federation Mikhail Kulikov and Farid Temirgaliev, who were accused of "protection racket" of the underground gambling business in the Moscow region.
Greenpeace activists have been charged in a new edition.
The investigators are trying to find out why the officials accepted the work done by ScanEx company, since it will cost the budget 10 million rubles to redo it.
The investigators decided to arrest all 30 people from the ship that took part in the action near the Prirazlomnaya platform on suspicion of piracy.
The bank's vice president Tamara Polyanitsyna made a plea agreement and will soon appear in court, which can later be used to convict ex-Chairman of the Board Vladimir Golubkov according to the principle of issue preclusion.