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A court has recognized the evidence collected by the Fifth Office of the Central Administration of the Investigative Committee (based in the city of Novosibirsk) sufficient to convict former officials of the Novosibirsk Region branch of the Federal Drug Control Service Aleksandr Yakushev, Timofey Sokolov, Aleksandr Vasilyev, Vasily Markin, Mikhail Kushnir, former police officer of the Siberian Federal District Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior Aleksey Bornikov, as well as residents of Novosibirsk Ilkhomzhon Shomirsaidov and Dmitry Kornev. Depending on the role of each one, they were found guilty of crimes under Part 1 of Article 222, Parts 1 and 3 of Article 228, Part 1 of Article 30, Part 5 of Article 33, Part 5 of Article 228.1, Part 3 of Article 285, Part 1, item “c” of Article 286, Part 3 of Article 33, Part 3, item “c” of Article 286 of the RF Penal Code (illegal storage of ammunition; illegal storage of narcotics on a large scale without intention to sell; plotting illegal drug trafficking by a group of people on a very large scale; complicity in illegal purchase of drugs without intention to sell on a very large scale; abuse of office; illegal drug trafficking without intention to sell on a very large scale; solicitation to abuse power; abuse of power).

The Central Administration of the Investigative Committee has initiated criminal proceedings against a citizen of Belorussia Dmitry Pavlov on suspicions of crimes under Part 2 of Article 205.2, Part 2 of Article 280, Parts 1 and 2 of Article 282.1. Parts 1 and 2 of Article 282.2, Part 2, item “c” of Article 282, Part 3 of Article 354.1 of the RF Penal Code (creation and organization of extremist organization; public calls for terrorist attacks and public justification of terrorism; public calls for extremism; inciting hatred or enmity as well as disparagement; rehabilitation of nazism).

Vladimir Region traffic police officers have detained Aleksandr Shuleshov, 27, a novice at the Daniil's Monastery of the Holy Trinity in the town of Pereslavl-Zalessky, Yaroslavl Region on suspicion of killing the monastery’s father superior. 

The criminal case over the killing of the father superior of the Daniil's Monastery of the Holy Trinity in the town of Pereslavl-Zalessky, Yaroslavl Region opened into a crime under Part 1 of Article 105 of the RF Penal Code, has been passed on to the Central Administration of the Investigative Committee for further investigation following the order of Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin.

The criminal case over the killing of a 17-year-old resident of Buryatia and abuse of office by a number of local policemen has been passed on to the fifth office of the Central Administration of the Investigative Committee based in the city of Novosibirsk for thorough and impartial investigation following the order of Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin. 

The first office of the Central Administration of the Investigative Committee has finished the investigation against former chief doctor of department No 6 of Mental Hospital No 14 Murad Shaov and his security deputy chief Mikhail Khokhlov. They are charged with a crime under Part 3 of Article 219 of the RF Penal Code (violation of fire safety requirements which entailed death of two of more people).

Officials of the Russia’s Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor General’s Office met today with representatives of the Openbaar Ministerie of the Netherlands (Public Prosecution Service) who came to Moscow to have talks on legal cooperation in the investigation into the Malaysian Boeing plane crash that happened on 17 July 2014. At the meeting the representatives of the Investigative Committee once more confirmed their intention to provide all necessary assistance to the international inquiry in order to find out the truth about the tragedy.

Clumsy attempts to affect the investigation against Nikita Belykh continue: from illiterate allegations of lawyers apparently not too much familiar with the Criminal Procedure Code, theatrical gests of wringing their hands of liberal activists saying “we do not believe” and to today’s input of misinforamtion coming from some “sources inside investigative bodies” who claim that “the inspection directorate of the Investigative Committee has started checking materials that form the ground for opening the case against the governor of Kirov Region”.

Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin has met with space pilot, Hero of the USSR and honorary member of the Public Council of the Investigative Committee Georgy Grechko. The meeting was attended by members of the Heroes Council of the Investigative Committee: Hero of the Soviet Union, director of the Investigative Committee Cadet School Igor Zaporozhan, Hero of the Russian Federation, head of the training office of the Investigative Committee Sergei Petrov and Hero of the Russian Federation, veteran of investigation Magomed Gimbatov.

A court has recognized the evidence collected by the Maritime Territory Office of the Investigative Committee sufficient to convict Igor Tulyantsev. He was found guilty of crimes under Part 2, item “e” of Article 126 of the RF Penal Code (kidnapping), Part 4, item “b” of Article 132 (sexual abuse), Part 4, item “c” of Article 131 (rape), Part 2, items “c” and “j” of Article 105 (murder).