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Bortnikov's break came in June 2003, when Sergey Smirnov, chief of the Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast FSB, was sent to Moscow to become the principal deputy to the director of the agency amid the Three Whales Corruption Scandal. Bortnikov was promoted to fill the vacancy.
Three Whales (Tri kita/Три кита) is a Moscow furniture shopping complex owned by Sergei Zuev. On August 13, 2000, Russian Customs inspectors suspended it and seized a furniture consignment supplied by the companies Bastion and Liga Mars, as they had allegedly smuggled 400 tons of furniture into Russia, while Zuev had evaded $5 million of customs duty by falsifying the price and weight ...
The criminal case was sent for further investigation by a curious circumstance - the investigation of the FSB confused (and the Prosecutor General's Office confirmed this in the indictment) the number of the federal law on which Vrublevsky was involved: instead of 26-FZ (articles 272 illegal access and 273 creation and use of viruses) FZ, [25 ...
Prosecutor-General Skuratov at a Federation Council meeting on his resignation, March 17, 1999. In April 1999, then FSB Chief Vladimir Putin and Interior Minister Sergei Stepashin held a televised press conference in which they discussed a video that both Mikhail Shvydkoy and Mikhail Lesin agreed to release and that had aired nationwide on 17 March on the state-controlled RTR channel which ...
NRA found liable in corruption case as jury says longtime leader Wayne LaPierre should repay $4.3 million Sabrina Souza and Emma Tucker, CNN February 23, 2024 at 7:25 PM
He also tried to investigate the Three Whales Corruption Scandal and criminal activities of FSB officers related to money laundering through the Bank of New York and illegal actions of Yevgeny Adamov, a former Russian Minister of Nuclear Energy. [8] [9] [10] The Three Whales case was under the personal control of President Vladimir Putin. [11]
That meeting alone is enough for a federal corruption probe, according to Tom Brennan, the family's private investigator for nearly a decade and a former Pennsylvania state trooper.
Mayor Eric Adams’ legal team is trying to get his public corruption case tossed by claiming a former top federal prosecutor is violating courtroom ethics laws by publicly smearing Hizzoner for ...