Managers of a real estate company were attacked in Moscow today. Attackers stole $1.2 million from the realtors from St. Petersburg in Novinsky Blvrd. in central Moscow.
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May 22, 2007Swedish prosecutors have charged a group of 24 Russians and Swedes with human trafficking, pimping and buying sex from nine Russian women, the AFP news agency reports.
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April 18, 2007A Russian businessman who backed Ukraine’s prime minister in the disputed 2004 elections was shot dead by a sniper outside a Kiev court on Tuesday, the Financial Times daily reports.
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March 29, 2007An international criminal group involved in human-trafficking and illegal immigration from southeast Asia and CIS countries to Western Europe through Russia has been broken by joint efforts of the Russian and foreign security services, the RIA Novosti news agency reported on March 15.
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March 15, 2007Spanish police arrested nine alleged members of Russian and Georgian crime gangs suspected of money laundering, a radio station said Thursday.
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November 23, 2006According to a report by an independent Russian think tank INDEM, corruption is still rampant in Russia forcing businessmen to part with 7 percent of theirturnover which they spend on bribes.
The Head of the IDEM foundation Georgy Satarov has presented the anti-corruption report “Business and Corruption. Problems of Countering 2006†on Monday Kommersant daily reports.
The research including interviewing of Russian businessmen was carried out in three Russian cities Moscow, Volgograd and Smolensk.It was discovered that Russian businessman gives bribes twice a year on the average.
IDEM analysts say corruption in Russia is rapidly increasing for the period from 2002 to 2005 it went up 900 percent. As the experts of the foundation reports only 1 out of 100,000 corrupt goes to prison, so chances to fine oneself behind the bards for a bribe taker is 0.0013 percent in Russia.
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November 1, 2006Disgraced South Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk said on Tuesday he spent part of private donations for research to pay the Russian mafia for mammoth tissues to clone extinct elephant species.
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October 27, 2006An alleged mafia jibe directed at Italy by Russian President Vladimir Putin received widespread coverage in the Italian media Monday and risked straining relations between the two countries.
Speaking during a summit with European Union leaders in Finland, Putin reportedly defended himself from charges that organized crime networks dominate business in his country by noting that “the word mafia was born in Italy, not Russiaâ€, Spain’s El Pays reported Sunday.
The remark was splashed out on the front pages of Italy’s leading dailies Monday and drew condemnation from government officials.
“It was an incredible remark. Instead of speaking nonsense, Putin should explain what has happened with the murder of (Russian journalist Anna) Politkovskaya,†Italian Foreign Ministry undersecretary Gianni Vernetti told reporters.
Politkovskaya, who was murdered in Moscow on Oct 7, had repeatedly reported on human rights violations in Chechnya, which is ruled by pro-Kremlin politicians.
While Prime Minister Romano Prodi’s office sought to play down the incident, saying Putin’s remark was meant to be ironic, other lawmakers called on the government to issue a strong reaction.
“Italy should respond to the serious remarks made by Russian President Putin,†said Angelo Bonelli of the Green Party, which is a member of Prodi’s centre-left ruling coalition.
Putin had come under fire during the summit over human rights violations in Russia and reportedly also accused many Spanish mayors of being “corruptâ€.
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