On August 23 Criminal Defense Firm Senior Partner Alexey Kasatkin and Lawyer Daniil Gorkov were invited as experts to a Moscow City Business Service Centre ‘Business Defense’ session. The session focused on analyzing strengths and weaknesses of a Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation draft law aimed at filling the gaps in the criminal procedure legislation, including clarification of grounds for detention of those accused of financial ...

On September 1 the winners of the Russian national contest of university professors ‘Golden Names of the Higher School’ were revealed. Yury Garmaev, Criminal Defense Firm Counsel, won a ‘Contribution to Science and Higher Education’ nomination.  The contest has been held since 2017 within a cognominal project of a transregional nonprofit organization ‘Higher School Professors League’ with support from The Ministry of Education and Presid...

On August 30, the appeals instance of Saint Petersburg City Court revoked the court of the first instance decision on arresting 2 378 property items of a CDF’s client net over 8.7 bn rubles. CDF Partner Artyom Polovinkin noted, ‘Despite the fact that the prosecution is being conducted against specific subjects accused of fraud and creation of a criminal community following the investigation’s request (artificially filed in different dist...

On August 29, while reviewing a petition on seizing Criminal Defense Firm client property net over 5 m rubles, Taganskiy District Court of Moscow accepted the arguments of CDF Partner Artyom Polovinkin and rejected to satisfy the prosecution’s petition.  Despite the reverse of the instance of appeal’s decision on 04.05.2022 on the client’s property seizure (earlier permitted by court during pre-trial), the prosecutor resubmitted a simila...

In the court decision delivered on July 21, 2022, following the appeal ‘Semenov v. Russia’, the European Court of Human Rights established violations of articles 5(4), 3, 8(1) of the European Convention on Human Rights regarding the excessive duration of the judgement review, the client’s custodial detention, and violations of his conditions of confinement in the pretrial detention centre.  The ECHR ordered the Russian government to pay ...

On June 8, the Kurchatov District Court of Chelyabinsk sustained the defense's motion to change the preventive measure previously chosen against the firm’s client in the form of pretrial detention to house arrest (at the same time, the client was held in a pretrial detention facility for more than a year). The client is convicted of a number of corruption-related grievous and extremely grievous crimes (bribe receipt and commercial bribery) du...

For the second year in a row, Criminal Defense Firm has become the official partner of the International Charity Race Legal Run. The project unites legal firms worldwide in order to support the wards of ‘Podari Zhizn’ charity foundation – seriously ill children from different regions of Russia and foreign countries. Same as last two years, Legal Run was held as a flash mob due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Follow the link to learn m...

Despite the debates between the Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation on whether to ban or to further regulate cryptocurrency in Russia, the latest version of the Ministry of Finance draft law of May 27 features the article that allows to use digital currencies to perform foreign trade transactions for companies and entrepreneurs.  Looking back to February 18, 2022: the Central Bank of Russia presented a...

On May 31, Criminal Defense Firm Partner Anna Golub spoke at ‘Defendant Business’ conference organised by Vedomosti business paper on topic ‘Cryptocurrency Seizure. Legal Uncertainty vs. Law Enforcement Necessity’. The conference brought together representatives of the government, business, non-profit organisations, legal market, business and industry-specific mass media, experts, and analysts. The conference was divided into three sessions w...