Accused of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale, the first deputy head of the Investigative Committee for Moscow, Denis Nikandrov, asked the chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, to withdraw the investigation of his case from the FSB, RBC reports with reference to the text of Nikandrov’s letter to the head of the department. Its contents were confirmed by a source familiar with the investigation.

The North Caucasus District Military Court of Rostov-on-Don sentenced Murad Shakhbanov, a resident of the Khasavyurt district of Dagestan, to two and a half years in a penal colony for publishing a video on the Odnoklassniki social network.

The representative of the defense of the head of the internal security department of the Investigative Committee, Mikhail Maksimenko, who is accused of taking a bribe, withdrew the complaint against his arrest, reports . Interfax “The complaint was withdrawn by Maksimenko’s side, the case was withdrawn from consideration,” said an employee of the press service of the Moscow City Court.

The Moscow District Military Court sentenced a 31-year-old resident of the capital to five years in prison and a fine of 50 thousand rubles for calls for terrorist and extremist activities, according to the website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Employees of the Chelyabinsk OTV found a corpse in a swamp on Saturday during a corporate quest and thought it was a mannequin that was part of the game. The TV channel itself reports . According to journalists, the players were divided into two teams and traveled around Chelyabinsk, performing various tasks. As part of one of the rounds of the game, the participants found themselves on the Sverdlovsk Highway near the Miass River.

In Arkhangelsk, the owner of the Kompromat29.ru website, Alexander Sukhanov, was detained on suspicion of extortion, FlashNord reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. “Sukhanov was detained on suspicion of extortion on an especially large scale,” the agency’s interlocutor said. The source did not provide other details, noting only that a criminal case had been opened under Part 3 of Article 163 of the Criminal Code (extortion on an especially large scale).

The international organization Reporters Without Borders demanded that the authorities release RBC journalist Alexander Sokolov, who is in jail on charges of extremism, RBC writes . Human rights activists called for the journalist to be immediately released. As noted in a statement by Reporters Without Borders, Sokolov’s last major investigation was devoted to embezzlement and embezzlement during the construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome.

Investigators from the Investigative Committee in the Yaroslavl region are conducting an investigation after the discovery of the body of a 34-year-old man in the Frunzensky police department, according to the website of the regional department. According to preliminary data, the man was detained and taken to the police department, where he was placed in a cell for administrative detainees.

President Vladimir Putin pardoned two convicts - 38-year-old Viktor Kudryavtsev and 40-year-old Alexei Kazamkin . The relevant decrees were published on the official legal information portal. The documents are dated July 30 but were only released today. In February 2013, Viktor Kudryavtsev was sentenced to three years in a penal colony by the Zelenogradsky District Court of the Kaliningrad Region.

In the Stavropol Territory, the Budennovsky City Court recovered 245 thousand rubles from the convicted person for damage caused to the colony for swallowing wire, according to the website of the regional prosecutor's office. “The audit established that in the period from September to November 2015 Belyansky A.N.

In the Altai Territory, the Rubtsovsky City Court found guilty a local resident who killed and dismembered the mother who abandoned him 29 years ago, reports with reference to the press service of the regional investigative department of the Investigative Committee. Interfax According to investigators, in January 2016, during a feast, a 29-year-old man beat to death his 57-year-old mother, who was celebrating her birthday. After that, her son dismembered her body and kept it in his apartment.

Near Kostroma, police detained a 16-year-old teenager who stole a samovar from a priest’s house and a church bell from a temple. This was reported on the website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kostroma Region. According to investigators, in the city of Nerekhta in October 2015, an expensive, rare samovar was stolen from the private house of a priest, and a 50-kilogram bell was removed from the church bell tower.

In the Tyumen region, on the night of August 1, a wooden one-story school burned down in the village of Seity, Yankovsky district, reports with reference to the press service of the regional Ministry of Emergency Situations. Interfax According to rescuers, the fire was reported at 22:54 local time and fire service personnel were sent to the scene. However, due to the road being washed out during the flood, rescuers were unable to quickly reach the village.

In Krasnodar, the court took into custody Denis Danilov, suspected of murdering a 65-year-old woman and her three grandchildren: two girls seven and nine years old and an 11-year-old boy (points “a”, “c” of part 2 of article 105 of the Criminal Code), reports the Investigative Committee Committee. 28-year-old Danilov was detained on the evening of July 30 in one of the houses in the village of Mirny, Seversky district, Krasnodar region.

In Omsk, two men who were repeatedly convicted over an apartment killed an orphanage resident and concreted his body in the garage, according to the website of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the region. According to investigators, a 76-year-old pensioner contacted the police to report the disappearance of her 32-year-old grandson. A day later, police detained two repeatedly convicted suspects who had recently been released from prison.