Olga Varnavskya, an employee of dermatovenerologic clinic, issued HIV-negative certificates for everyone who was ready to pay 1500 rubles ($60) for it, Pravda.Ru reports.
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May 22, 2007A Russian man, who wanted to escape legal persecution, pretended to be an American citizen who ventured to travel across Russia without money and documents to set a new Guinness Record.
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May 19, 2007A Moscow court has found Sergei Mavrodi, founder of a multi-million-dollar investment scheme, involving at least 2 million people in the 1990s, guilty of massive fraud.
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April 24, 2007An expert group invited to verify the authenticity of relics offered for sale through the Internet as being genuine remains of a Christian saint has proved they are fake, Russian Orthodox Church spokesmen said Friday.
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March 23, 2007A Russian court on Monday convicted six men for selling forged copies of number plates and passes reserved for senior Kremlin officials and the presidential bodyguard.
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March 20, 2007The Georgian authorities have agreed to extradite Badri Patarkatsishvili, a media and financial tycoon, to Russia, the Civil Georgia web-site reported on Wednesday quoting a report by the Imedi Television, co-owned by Patarkatsishvili.
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March 7, 2007A Dutch court handed Guus Hiddink a six-month suspended sentence and fined him 45,000 euros ($59,270) on Tuesday after finding him guilty of tax fraud, the Reuters news agency reports.
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February 27, 2007
Australian authorities are investigating a possible Russian connection to an alleged scam that promises people high-tech products for Christmas at prices that are hard to believe, Sydney Morning Herald reported.
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December 20, 2006London’s Harrow Crown Court sentenced a Russian bank chief to six year prison term for coordinating an international identity theft operation, SC Magazine reported Wednesday.
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Russian authorities suspects IBM company of business fraud involving also Russian national pension fund and IBM local partners R-Style and Lanit, the Interfax news agency reports.
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