Investigators completed searches in the Skolkovo Foundation, which took place as part of a criminal case on the misuse of budget funds allocated to the fund, the press service of the Investigative Committee reports. During the searches, a large number of regulatory, financial and accounting documents necessary for the evidence base were seized.

The police opened the gang of “illegal bankers”, which since January 2011 brought out more than 1.5 billion rubles to the “shadow” sector, reports the Ministry of Internal Affairs . “Bankers” took 5% of the commission for cashing the money of customers who were transferred according to fictitious payment orders of Business Consulting LLC to the accounts “One-day firms” opened in the OPM-Bank KB LLC. Cash issuance was carried out through his depository.

In Moscow, the head of one of the departments of the Center for Special Purpose of the Neuded Army of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, suspected of receiving a bribe, reports RIA Novosti . A police officer is suspected of excess of official powers and a bribe. On the fact of the detention, the department launched an official check. As Life News clarifies, the police major Roman Drokin was detained in vigorous as a result of the operation carried out by the FSB officers.

Ilya Ponomarev, in response to the request of Vladimir Zhirinovsky Prosecutor General’s Office, to check his “Skolkovsky money” prepared a request to the Duma commission for monitoring the reliability of information on the income of deputies with a request to verify the declaration and make information about the income and property of his wife. According to Ponomarev, Zhirinovsky hid his property, transferring her to his wife and issuing a fictitious divorce.

The leader of the Brotherhood Radical Party Dmitry Korchinsky will pay 10 thousand dollars for “abuse” over the Russian TV presenter Ivan Urgant, who unsuccessfully joked on the air of the Smak culinary program. According to Gazeta.ua , Korchinsky made such a statement on TV channel I, urging businessmen and people's deputies to increase the amount of reward at least twice. “I am an opponent of all violence, but a supporter of documentary.

Ilya Karpyuk Frame from the video "Detention of Pavel Durov" The United Capital Partners Foundation, the president and main shareholder of which is the Russian businessman Ilya Shcherbovich, agreed to purchase 48% of the shares of the VKontakte social network. UCP agreed to buy 40% of the shares from the Mirilashvili family and 8% of one of the founders of the company - Lev Levieva. The transaction value is not disclosed, but experts estimate the entire social network at $ 1.5 billion.

The First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Igor Shuvalov denied the statement of the ideer of the Civil Platform Party Mikhail Prokhorov, who reported the beginning of the recession. He stated this at the Russia-2013 forum, which is also called Russian Davos. The broadcast from the event is the official website of the forum . Prokhorov made his statement on the eve of the speech of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in the State Duma.

Fragment of the main page of the Nacole site On April 23, 2013, we invite you to take part in a public discussion on how to exercise civil and municipal control over the activities of the police. Representatives of the National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforces, Nacolein Olson and Barbara Attard (Barbara Attard) will be told about their experience.

The capital's authorities plan to allocate 30-40 million rubles to accelerate clouds on Victory Clouds, Andrei Tsybin, the head of the housing and communal services department, said on Thursday at a press conference by the head of the housing and communal services department at a press conference.

The American magazine Time presented its annual list of the hundred most influential people of the planet. The only Russian who got into this list was the Deputy Prime Minister, President of Rosneft Igor Sechin. It takes 13th place in the Titani group. In total, the Time list consists of five groups - “Titans” (Titans) , “Pioneers” (Pioneers) , “Leaders” (Liders) , “Celebrities in the World of Arts” (Artists) and “idols” (ICONS) .

According to RBC , the Canadian intermediary company RFA International, it turns out that for several months he has been in full in Brussels with the European Commission for the right to receive from the largest domestic manufacturer of ferroalloys - the CHEMK group - products "at cost", i.e. At export prices that do not take into account either the costs or even more the profit of Russian manufacturers.

Searches in the Skolkovo Foundation were not given the opportunity to make his president Viktor Vekselberg with a report on the Russia 2013 forum that opened on Thursday, which is called the Russian equivalent forum in Davos, RIA Novosti reports. “Today, Viktor Vekselberg was waiting for the Sberbank forum ... But he could not come due to investigative actions in the fund,” said a source familiar with the situation.

While the court and the case, on Alexei Navalny brought one more to a heap. “As established by the investigation, Oleg and Alexei Navalny in Cyprus created the company“ Alortag Management Limited ”, who acted as the founder of the Main Subscribe Agency, which was assigned to the General Director of which was assigned a nominal person who has nothing to do with his subsequent activity,” the Russian investigative committee said.

For other owners of VKontakte - Pavel Durov (12%) and Mail.ru (39.9%) - information on the sale of the share of the company was a surprise. The owners have a pre -emptive right to buy off, and “we have not yet received notifications about the possible sale,” Durov told Vedomosti (No. 68, dated April 18).

Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold another television line with Russians at noon on April 25, the Kremlin press service reports. The “Direct Line” will be broadcast on the air of the TV channels “First”, “Russia 1”, “Russia 24”, radio stations “Mayak”, “Vesti FM” and “Radio of Russia”. The work of the telephone center will begin four days before the release of the program on the air (April 21 at 12:00) and will last until its end.