 | Alexander Drymanov, the former director of Moscow's Investigative Committee, has been sentenced to 12 years and fined 196m rubles ($2.5m) for receiving a bribe from gangster Zakhary Kalashov 'Young Shakro'. Drymanov and his subordinates accepted the bribe in exchange for trying to release one of Kalashov’s henchmen, Andrey 'the Italian' Kochuikov. |  |
 | The case made headlines in 2019 when cops raided the Moscow newsroom of the media outlet Rosbalt. The raid was connected to a defamation lawsuit by billionaire Alisher Usmanov, who won a different defamation case against a website that claimed he has ties to Kalashov. Alisher Usmanov has an estimated net worth of $13 billion and has intimate ties to Putin. |  Maintaining his innocence, Drymanov complained during the trial that the FSB agents who searched his home mocked him during the raid and drank his cognac. |
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