An unemployed former shareholder of a major ammunition plant in the Moscow region is suspected of embezzling 25 percent of its shares. An unemployed former shareholder of a major ammunition plant in the Moscow region is suspected of embezzling 25 percent of its shares, police said Wednesday. The suspect, a 48-year-old man whose identity hasn't...

... charges, a Prosecutor General's Office report said. The report said more than $320 million worth of illegally obtained property and funds had been seized as a result of requests to foreign governments, including $300 million in Switzerland allegedly embezzled from state-owned shipping company Sovkomflot by businessman Yury Nikitin, Interfax reported. Nikitin is wanted by Russia on theft charges stemming from a case opened in 2005, when authorities accused him and four associates of stealing more...

... Shevchenko told RIA-Novosti that there were no grounds for reviewing the decision rejecting his parole request or for investigating the employees implicated by Lebedev's lawyers. Lebedev and Khodorkovsky are serving prison terms for convictions on charges of embezzlement and money laundering and are scheduled to be released in 2016. 179742

... December, but the ruling was appealed by the prosecutors and overturned by a higher court in February. The Harvard-educated Alexanyan died of AIDS-related illnesses in October at the age of 39. In 2006, he was charged and convicted of tax evasion and embezzlement as part of the crackdown on Yukos, which was once Russia's biggest oil company. Alexanyan suffered persistent health problems while spending more than 30 months in prison. He and his lawyers accused authorities of using his illness as a...

... governor on Thursday, promised to promote investment and raise the region's $10 billion budget. The former emergency situations minister is replacing Boris Gromov, whose dozen-year tenure was marked by several corruption scandals, including the purported embezzlement of nearly $1 billion by his top finance official, Alexei Kuznetsov — which brought the region to near-bankruptcy, prosecutors said. Kuznetsov fled the country and remains at large. Analysts said that in order to win confidence, Shoigu...

... fund the city government by former Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov in 1995. Borodin headed the organization for 16 years and denies that mismanagement on his watch was the cause of the bank’s problems. At least four major criminal charges of theft and embezzlement have been filed against Borodin by the Investigative Committee. In March, the Prosecutor General’s Office sent an official request to the British government asking for his extradition. Borodin is not the only banker to have recently...

... original plan that provided no answers or closure to the film's conflict. Such is the backstory to what we witness onstage in Vladimir Ageyev's production of Simonov's play. We actually enter the tale when the director (Vladimir Mishukov) is on trial for embezzlement of funds. Everyone but his girlfriend (Alisa Grebenshchikova) has turned against him for refusing to play by the rules of the game. This includes a sleazy critic (Anton Kukushkin), the equally sleazy head of the State Fund for Support of...