The Kirovsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don sentenced businessman Andrei Kakovkin, the first member of the “Titov’s list” to return to Russia, to three years in a penal colony on charges of fraud. According to investigators, on August 11, 2015, he and his accomplice stole 10 million rubles belonging to one of the commercial companies. Details. Andrey Kakovkin returned to Russia in February 2018, the same month that Business Ombudsman Boris Titov met with Russian entrepreneurs in London.

Trust Bank estimated the debts of Mikhail Gutseriev’s business at 1 trillion rubles, writes Reuters with reference to the bank’s presentation. Now the parties are agreeing on an agreement under which Gutseriev can buy back part of his assets from the bank, and in exchange the bank will waive claims against him and some members of his family.

After a meeting with business representatives, the Ministry of Finance decided to abandon the reduction of the period of stay in Russia, after which a citizen becomes a tax resident, from 183 to 90 days, said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov. This tax residence reform threatened Russians living in several countries with serious problems. Details.

How, with the help of only one paper, scammers can cash out or steal money from the bank from nothing suspecting entrepreneurs In Russia, a method of cashing and theft of money from banks that could be used in the sensational case with the theft of 5 million rubles from Tinkoff Bank can also be flourished. As The Bell found out, Rosfinmonitoring attributes it to the three most popular cashing schemes, and nothing suspecting entrepreneurs can suffer from it.

On Thursday, October 31, Tinkoff Bank announced a reduction in rates on deposits in rubles from November 1: the standard rate for deposits for 12 months was reduced to 5.5% per annum from 6%, for a period of 3–5 months - to 4, 5% per annum from 5%. Tinkoff was one of the first to cut its rates after the Central Bank cut the main rate on October 25. Alfa-Bank also said that it was “forced to change the rate,” since the Central Bank has reduced it three times since June.

As The Bell found out, the scheme that scammers used 5 million rubles from Tinkoff Bank in the sensational business , Rosfinmonitoring classifies to three most popular cashing methods. And with its help you can steal money from almost any bank. What's happened In early November, Tinkoff Bank found himself at the center of a loud scandal, when its employee issued over 5 million rubles under supposedly fake documents - we are talking about the certificate of the labor dispute commission (KTS).

Igor Shuvalov may have a new reason for jokes. Three years ago, even when the deputy prime minister, it seemed ridiculous to him that Russians were buying apartments in 20 square meters. m. Now new buildings have appeared in the Moscow real estate market, in which they sell the “smallest in history” apartments with an area of ​​only 11 square meters. m. Interfax writes about this with reference to the review of Metrium. The Bell found one of these apartments. Details.

Car sharing BelkaCar has changed its main owner – it has become Coneplace Limited, a subsidiary of BMT Private Equity, Vedomosti writes . BMT is an investment company of the group created by the founder of VimpelCom, Dmitry Zimin. BMT bought a majority stake from the Swiss Winterberg Group (formerly Bryanston), the amount was not disclosed. Both Winterberg and BMT Zimina were venture investors in BelkaCar.

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey said the company has decided to ban all political ads on the platform. "We have made the decision to stop showing political ads on Twitter globally. Reach for political messages needs to be earned, not bought," he wrote.

After five years of revenue growth, the Russian Internet piracy market has fallen sharply — by 27% to $63.5 million, Vedomosti writes , citing a Group-IB study . The main reasons are the fight against illegal online casinos and bookmakers (sources of advertising revenue), the decline of pirate content delivery networks, and an anti-piracy memorandum, according to which illegal copies of films and TV series are removed from search results.

The debt burden of the population is at a multi-year high, but it is impossible to say that the majority of borrowers are in debt, quotes RBC the results of a new study by the Bank of Russia.

Russia's largest manufacturer of radio frequency identification (RFID) devices, Zelenograd-based ISBC, will abandon the Airtag brand. The reason is "an international deal that includes the transfer of rights to the trademark." The Airtag brand has been bought by the American Apple, RBC has learned . A branded tag for small items will be produced under it - they can be found using the Locator app.

Yandex.Taxi separates the direction of unmanned vehicles into a separate company. If the taxi service gives up control in the new company, this will increase its profitability before the upcoming IPO, writes . Kommersant Details. Yandex.Taxi will separate unmanned vehicles into a separate legal entity - Yandex.SDK LLC (self-driving cars). Dmitry Polishchuk, head of the unmanned direction at Yandex, will become the general director of the LLC.

The transport policy of the Moscow authorities may begin to change as early as next year - for the first time since 2011, the mayor's office ordered consultants from Mckinsey a new strategy for the development of the transport complex, Vedomosti found out . The goal of the previous strategy was to transfer motorists to public transport.

Moscow ordered Mckinsey for a new transport strategy. The previous one cost the city trillions, and car owners - nerves and money The transport policy of the Moscow authorities may begin to change as early as next year - for the first time since 2011, the mayor's office ordered consultants from Mckinsey a new strategy for the development of the transport complex, Vedomosti found out . The goal of the previous strategy was to transfer motorists to public transport.