June 2006: the Chief of the FSB counter-intelligence department of the Baltiisk Naval Base, Captain Sergei Khalayev, dismissed on suspicion of abuse of power. (The FSB is the successor to the KGB's internal security arm, and remains a powerful and unaccountable organisation.)
July 2006: Denis Mikhalev, a senior Finance Ministry official, sentenced to ten years in prison for accepting an expensive foreign car in return for giving a businessman a classified document concerning recovery of Russia's Soviet-era trade finance claims against Vietnam.
September 2006: Lt Gen Vladimir Ganeev of the Civil Protection Ministry given a 20-year term for running an extortion racket.
September 2006: culmination of a long-running investigation into the “Three Whales” furniture company, owned by relatives of a senior FSB official, and suspected of bribing customs officials when importing furniture. Nineteen senior officials dismissed from their posts. These include “several” FSB generals and even a senior figure from the Kremlin staff.
November 2006: seven arrests at the highest level of the Federal Mandatory Medical Insurance Fund. The Director of the Fund, Andrei Taranov, his two deputies, three department heads and one other official charged with taking bribes from representatives of pharmaceutical companies to promote their products over those of their rivals.
