On March 17 Criminal Defense Firm Managing Partner Alexey Novikov participated in ‘Bankruptcy-2023’ conference organised by Kommersant Publishing House. Alexey focused on the most pertinent criminal risks in the bankruptcy procedures in 2023. He revealed the nuances of a possible criminal prosecution for both special bankruptcy elements and typical fraud, misappropriation, or embezzlement charges using the cases currently handled by the fi...

Oleg Vyshinskyhas 30 years’ experience of legal practice including 14 years in investigation and over 10 years in practice as advocate. From 1992 to 2006 Oleg worked in investigative units of the law enforcement as a major case investigator, financial crimes investigation (banking and finance) department head, the first deputy head of the Main Investigative Department of the Volgograd oblast, head of the Department for the Investigation of Org...

On February 3, the Seventh General Jurisdiction Court of Cassation has fully satisfied the motion of Alexey Kasatkin, Criminal Defense Firm Senior Partner, and changed the territorial jurisdiction of the appeal proceedings on a criminal case against the firm’s client. The client was found guilty of accepting bribe and items of corrupt payment on a large and an especially large amountsin collusion with a group of individuals. The reason forapp...

The Legal Forum of Masters was held in Voronezh from 15 to 17 September and gathered over 500 participants – law firms representatives, companies’ in-house lawyers, advocates, government employees and industry-specific ministries, business owners, and journalists.  Criminal Defense Firm Managing Partner Alexey Novikov summarized, ‘I was pleased to be part of this grand event and share my working experience with PR Litigation. I thank Nik...

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 ...