Gevorg Loretsyan. Image via Facebook.
Armenian Deputy Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Gevorg Loretsyan has been arrested along with his driver as part of a corruption investigation. [Read more…]
Ruslan Tsechoev. Official picture.
A former Finance Minister of Ingushetia and another high-ranking ministry official have been sentenced to five years in prison for misspending ₽2 billion ($31 million) in budgetary funds that were allocated for state employees and housing. [Read more…]
Serzh Sargsyan. Official picture.
The former President and Prime Minister of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, has been charged with embezzling around ֏490 million ($1 million). [Read more…]
Dusheti Municipality. Photo: Nino Melikishvili / OC Media.
In Dusheti, a town 60 km north of the capital of Georgia, family comes first. An OC Media investigation has uncovered that time and again, from food provision to construction, a number of government tenders have gone to close relatives of officials in the city administration. [Read more…]
former Minister of Construction Mustafa Buruzhev. Photo: Crimerussia
The former head of the administration of the president of the Russian republic of Ingushetia and an ex-minister of construction of the republic are being prosecuted on charges of corruption. [Read more…]
A photograph of Sergei Rybnikov being arrested released by the Russian Investigative Committee.
A former high-ranking official has been detained in Krasnodar as part of a wide-ranging corruption investigation into officials from the Russian Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria’s Ministry of Internal Affairs.
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Newly constructed high-rises in Makhachkala. Photograph: NTV.
Illegal high-rises have mushroomed in Makhachkala, the capital of Daghestan— the fruit of a corrupt process two decades in the making. [Read more…]
The protest in Kaspiysk on 22 September. Photograph: Ruslan Alibekov.
Around 150 residents of the city of Kaspiysk in the southeast of the Russian republic of Daghestan gathered at a protest on Sunday against the new master plan of development for the city. [Read more…]
Bidzina Gegidze. (Parliament)
An MP from Georgia’s ruling Georgian Dream Party has claimed that his summoning by the State Security Service for questioning regarding corruption investigation into Georgian Post, where he previously worked, may be politically motivated.
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Police searching the home of one of the suspects. (pasmi.ru)
Twelve high-ranking police officials in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria have been arrested on suspicion of participating in a criminal community. [Read more…]
