It is customary to associate the former minister and businessman with Dmitry Medvedev and Anatoly Chubais The new most high-profile criminal case of 2019: in Moscow, on charges of embezzlement of 4 billion rubles, the former Minister of Open Government and ex-owner of the E4 group Mikhail Abyzov was detained from two energy companies.

Everything that is known about the detention of the former Minister for Open Government Mikhail Abyzov at 9:00 am on March 27. The Investigative Committee charged Abyzov with creating a criminal community using his official position (part 3 of article 210 of the Criminal Code) and large-scale fraud (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code). They provide for punishment in the form of imprisonment for up to 20 years.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against former Minister for Open Government Affairs Mikhail Abyzov, the says department's website . He is accused of embezzlement of 4 billion rubles. More. The investigation believes that in the period from 2011 to 2014, Abyzov created and headed a criminal community, with the help of which he, by deceiving the shareholders of Siberian Energy Company OJSC and Regional Electric Networks OJSC, took 4 billion rubles abroad.

Oil companies have agreed to extend the freeze on fuel prices until July of this year. As a result of the new agreement with the government, businesses will also be able to receive higher compensation for price containment. The decision was made contrary to the position of the Ministry of Finance, which estimated additional costs for subsidies to oilmen at least 120 billion rubles. More.

A London court prohibited Artem Avetisyan’s company from continuing legal proceedings with Baring Vostok in the Amur region, Vedomosti learned . We are talking about a businessman’s attempt to achieve the exercise of a call option for 10% of Vostochny, which lies at the heart of the dispute between the bank’s shareholders. Read more.

The confrontation between Sberbank and the Central Bank may get off the ground. Today, Russia's largest state bank said it is looking for ways to integrate its payment system with the Central Bank's Fast Payment System (FPS). More. Sberbank is discussing integration options with the Central Bank, said Svetlana Kirsanova, curator of the state bank's retail business, deputy chairman of the board.

At a presentation on new Apple services, the company introduced its own Apple Card credit card, launched in partnership with Goldman Sachs. It is already being called a product that will change the balance of power in the market. The Bell figured out whether this is so and in whose favor. Benefit for customers Unlimited, free issue and maintenance. No late fees or international transactions.

The London Court of International Arbitration sided with the Baring Vostok investment fund in proceedings related to the Calvey case. The court ruled that Artem Avetisyan, co-owner of Vostochny Bank, should give up trying to exercise a call option on 10% of the bank, since it violates arbitration agreements, writes the Financial Times. The exercise of the option would mean the transfer of control over the Vostochny bank to "a businessman with connections in the Kremlin," the newspaper notes.

The topic of release is privacy as a way of earnings. The event of the week, of course, was the presentation of Apple, where the company introduced video stacking, a subscription to magazines and newspapers, a subscription service for paid games and a credit card. But at the same time, Tim Cook and other Apple managers introduced a set of rules for the development of services.

Apple will close the user in his ecosystem The presentation of Apple turned out to be the strongest strategic course of the company against competing services. Apple offered users a unique product : a complete set of content without selling personal data. On March 25, Apple announced the Apple TV streaming service with the new Apple TV, the Apple News+ consolidated subscription, the Apple Arcade Credit Card with the Daily Cash Cashback system.

More than 14% of all borrowers in Russia, 8 million people, give half of their income to repay loans, and their number has been growing steadily since 2017, when the figure was at the level of 12%. Now banks have no restrictions on issuing loans to people whose payments exceed 50% of income, but the Central Bank is discussing the possibility of establishing protective risk coefficients.

The Russian passport lost one visa-free position in the new Freedom of Movement Index Henley & Partners , but moved up one position in the overall ranking. Russians now have access to 118 visa-free countries, which is noticeably less than Ukrainians (128), but much more than Belarusians (77). More. The passport index was topped by Japan, Singapore and South Korea.

Apple on March 25 significantly expanded the line of its services by presenting a streaming service, news subscription, a paid game section and a credit card. But the main proposal of the company was new uniform rules for the development of services that can lure millions of users to its side. Privacy, privacy, privacy Principles for the development of Apple services, a frame from a company presentation Apple enters the media services market with a huge delay.