A criminal case was opened against Alexander Vdovin, who burst into the branch of the Zapadny Bank in Belgorod on Monday, April 21, with a weapon, under the article of hostage-taking, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a representative of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Russian authorities have prepared draft amendments to the Tax Code, which call many methods of tax optimization abuse, expand the powers of tax officials and increase the statute of limitations and the depth of audits for tax crimes from the current three to 10 years, the Vedomosti newspaper reported on Monday. The project was prepared on the initiative of the Federation Council and on behalf of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. The document is currently undergoing interdepartmental approval.

Mail.Ru Group, 52% of which is owned by Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov , announced on Monday the launch, with the support of the HackerOne hacker community, of a program that provides rewards for discovering problems in the security of its Internet projects, the reported . company's press service From April 21 to May 20, 2014, the first stage of the competition will take place, within which reports on found vulnerabilities will be accepted.

The Maxfield Capital fund, whose largest investor is billionaire Viktor Vekselberg , has invested more than $5 million in the Russian developer Parallels, founder and managing partner of the fund Alexander Turkot told ITAR-TASS . Turkot did not disclose the exact amount of investment and the volume of the acquired stake. According to him, Parallels’ interest is due to the fact that the developer is showing good growth and is working in an interesting market for Maxfield Capital.

The main military prosecutor's office questioned the right of ex-Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, who was accused of negligence, to an amnesty as a defender of the Fatherland and ordered a corresponding study in one of the specialized research institutes, the Kommersant newspaper writes on Monday, April 21, citing sources. The results of the study should be ready in the coming days, the publication notes.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow on Monday extended for four months - until August 22 - the arrest of the former owner of My Bank, head of the Green Alliance - People's Party Gleb Fetisov , accused of fraud, Interfax reports . The detention of Gleb Fetisov became known on February 28.

The number of Russian men removed from trains on the border with Ukraine after Kiev introduced a ban on entry into the country for male citizens from Russia aged 16 to 60 years old has reached several hundred people, RIA Novosti reported on Monday, citing the head of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin. . “According to yesterday, a fairly large number was removed, it amounts to several hundred passengers,” the agency quotes him as saying.

Former Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov was amnestied in a criminal case of negligence on legal grounds, and there can be no doubt about this, the lawyer of the former accused, Genrikh Padva, told RIA Novosti , commenting on the information of the Kommersant newspaper that the Main Military Prosecutor's Office doubted in the ex-official's right to amnesty. Serdyukov’s defense knows nothing about the investigation initiated by the prosecutor’s office, Padva told Interfax .

The Construction Investments company, controlled by the structures of Viktor Vekselberg , lost in the competition for the right to develop the territory of the ZiL plant to the development company LSR Real Estate - M of Andrei Molchanov , which offered 28 billion rubles for the lot, reported the press service of the Moscow city department for competition policy on Monday . The auction was announced on December 31, 2013.

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on Monday The man who took hostages at the Belgorod representative office of the Zapadny bank voluntarily surrendered his weapon to the police under guarantees of payment of his savings, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Belgorod region. The attacker handed over his gun to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Belgorod region, Viktor Pesterev, who negotiated with him at the bank branch. After this he was detained.

An armed man who seized the Belgorod representative office of the Zapadny bank on Monday demands the return of more than 20 million rubles stored in the bank, according to the website of the television and radio company Mir Belogorya. According to alleged data, the man was a client of the bank and owns bills worth several million rubles, Bel.ru.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has appointed former general director of the Kalashnikov concern Konstantin Busygin as head of the Federal Agency for the Development of the State Border (Rosgranitsa), the Kommersant newspaper reported on Monday, citing a high-ranking source in the government apparatus. Medvedev's order will be officially published soon. Busygin's candidacy was recommended to Medvedev by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.

The taking of hostages at the Belgorod representative office of Zapadny Bank is a natural reaction of a depositor to the revocation of the bank’s license, said the head of the board of directors and owner of 9.9923% of Zapadny, Vladimir Semago, on the Business FM radio station on Monday. “One should have expected such a reaction.