Former operative of the criminal investigation department of the Saratov Ministry of Internal Affairs, Alexander Frolov, was sentenced to 2 years in a general regime colony for receiving 50 thousand rubles: for this amount he promised to close the criminal case. Frolov received money from a 30-year-old local resident on the night of June 18, 2014, the press service of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the Saratov Region reported on Wednesday.

In Yaroslavl, the investigation into the case against a local resident who shot at a patrol car with an air pistol, in which the police arrived following a complaint from her neighbor, has been completed. The incident occurred in September 2014 in the courtyard of one of the houses on Shkolny Proezd in Yaroslavl, reports the press service of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. A 36-year-old woman, being drunk, quarreled with her neighbor. The latter called the police.

The judge of the Tverskoy Court refused to give permission to Sergei Mokhnatkin to go to the colony to visit Sergei Krivov, convicted in the case of the riots on Bolotnaya Square. Mokhnatkin was his civil defender and petitioned for a trip to Krivov to “provide material and legal assistance.” Judge Alexey Stekliev denied Mokhnatkin permission to leave, reports Kasparov.Ru, since in the judge’s opinion, Mokhnatkin did not motivate his petition convincingly enough.

The Public Verdict Foundation is appealing the appeal ruling of the Moscow City Court, which left unchanged the requirement to register a human rights organization with the Ministry of Justice as a foreign agent. Public Verdict reported on the decision to appeal to the Presidium of the Moscow City Court on Wednesday, a day after the city court rejected the foundation’s complaint.

Former inspector of the traffic police service of the Rubtsovsky department of the Altai Territory, Evgeny Abramov, was found guilty of committing an accident in which a young woman died, and was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison in a penal colony. The case against Abramov was investigated under Part 4 of Art.

The Supreme Court satisfied the demands of the prosecutor's office to recognize the website of the religious organization Jehovah's Witnesses and three of its books as extremist. According to the court decision, the website http://jw.org should be included in the list of extremist materials, as well as the books “What Does the Bible Really Teach?”, “Draw Closer to Jehovah” and “Come and Follow Me,” RAPSI reports.

Investigators detained suspects in the murder of the director of the Coca-Cola plant in St. Petersburg, Dmitry Soshnev, and they indicated the location of the businessman’s body. The press service of the Investigative Committee reported this on Wednesday. The names of the suspects are known: they are 28-year-old Azerbaijani citizen Denis Chkhitauri and 46-year-old Vyacheslav Finogenov, previously convicted of murder.

The Moscow City Court sentenced Maxim Nazarov, a former operative of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs, who was accused of abuse of power, to 5 years in a maximum security colony. Nazarov made a deal with the investigation and testified in the high-profile case of General Denis Sugrobov. on Nazarov’s sentence RAPSI reported , clarifying that the case was heard behind closed doors.

A bill has been submitted to the State Duma that would introduce mandatory administrative supervision of former prisoners convicted of crimes against judges, investigators and law enforcement officers, as well as those convicted under extremist charges. Now administrative supervision is applied to those who have committed a serious or especially serious crime, repeat offenders, as well as to those convicted of crimes against minors.

Former deputy head of correctional colony No. 19 of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Volgograd Region, Alexander Samokhin, was sentenced to 2 years in a penal colony for being friends with a prisoner: he allowed him to use a telephone and other equipment and informed him in advance about searches. Samokhin was found guilty under Part 1 of Art.

"Soldiers' Mothers" received answers from military investigators and the prosecutor's office: there are no signs of crime in the mass deaths of Russian soldiers last summer. The media and human rights activists believe that the servicemen died during hostilities on the territory of Ukraine. Soldiers' Mothers of St.

The body of a 44-year-old prisoner was found in the pre-trial detention center on the territory of correctional colony No. 6 in Chuvashia. According to preliminary data, the man committed suicide by hanging himself from a heating pipe.

The Krasnokamensk City Court sentenced former senior traffic police inspector Dmitry Tyukavkin to 4 years probation, who returned a confiscated license to an ambulance driver, who had been deprived of his license for a year and a half, for a bribe. The court found Tyukavkin guilty under Part 3 of Art. 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (taking a bribe for illegal actions) and Part 1 of Art.

The inspector of the security department of correctional colony No. 3 in Bashkiria, Anatoly Uglanov, will appear in court on charges of causing the death of a prisoner: according to the investigation, the inspector beat him with a baton. The trial in the Kalininsky District Court of Ufa will begin on Wednesday at 14.00, the human rights organization “Zona Prava” reports, citing lawyer Zilya Bulatova, who represents the interests of the father of the deceased.

On Wednesday night, a man committed suicide at the Fili-Davydkovo police station in the Western Administrative District of Moscow, the Moscow agency reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. “Around 04:00, a man detained on suspicion of committing a crime committed suicide,” he said. Later the information was officially confirmed.