The Prosecutor General's Office has demanded the seizure of the property of a Dagestani deputy.

The Prosecutor General's Office has filed a lawsuit against Dagestan parliament member Murtuzali Murtuzaliyev, his common-law wife, and her family for the seizure of property worth 850 million rubles.

The Prosecutor General's Office has filed a lawsuit against Dagestan People's Assembly member Murtuzali Murtuzaliyev, his common-law wife, Zhaneta Azizova, and her uncle, businessman Shikhkerim Ragimov, for the seizure of their movable and immovable property. In addition to the Prosecutor General's Office, the plaintiffs include the territorial offices of the Federal Agency for State Property Management for Dagestan, Moscow, and the Moscow Region.

On Wednesday, November 19, a preliminary hearing was held in the Dorogomilovsky Court, according to an RBC correspondent. Azizova's representative was present at the meeting and reported that Murtuzaliev was unable to attend in person because he had been "summoned by the head of the republic," RBK reports.

According to a source, an investigation conducted jointly by the Prosecutor General's Office and the Dagestan Prosecutor's Office revealed that the regional parliament deputy and his relatives had purchased property for amounts exceeding their legal income. It was established that between 2006 and 2023, Murtuzaliev earned 26 million rubles from his work as a deputy and at the state-owned institution Dagestanavtodor, while his common-law wife, Zhaneta Azizova, earned 29.3 million rubles. In doing so, the deputy acquired property worth at least 376 million rubles (the current market value, according to the agency, is estimated at 850 million rubles).

The Prosecutor General's Office is asking the court to forfeit property actually belonging to Murtuzaliev: eight plots of land, five houses, two apartments, and three non-residential buildings in Moscow, the Moscow region, Makhachkala, and Izberbash, as well as a Lexus LX570. This property includes a mansion in the elite village of Zhukovka on Rublevo-Uspenskoe Highway near Moscow, as well as an estate in the resort village of Primorsky in Dagestan.

According to an RBC source, the Prosecutor General's Office established that in 2015, Deputy Murtuzaliev registered a residential building and a 725-square-meter plot of land in Makhachkala in the name of his son, Murad. Between 2016 and 2017, a six-story office building with an area of over 2,000 square meters was built on this site for 111.1 million rubles. According to the department, in 2019, a fictitious purchase and sale transaction for 800,000 rubles was executed between the deputy's son and Azizova's father's brother, Shikhkerim Ragimov. Thus, the property was transferred to Ragimov, whose income, according to the Federal Tax Service, from 2005 to 2021 amounted to only 150,000 rubles.

The hearing on the lawsuit will take place in Moscow's Dorogomilovsky Court on December 19, the publication states.

According to the case file on the court's website, the plaintiffs are Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation N.A. Vinnichenko, the Territorial Administration of the Federal Agency for State Property Management in the Moscow Region, the Territorial Administration of the Federal Agency for State Property Management in the Republic of Dagestan, and the Territorial Administration of the Federal Agency for State Property Management in the city of Moscow.

Murtuzaliev, 68, is a lawyer by training. He was elected to the People's Assembly of the Republic of Dagestan of the second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth convocations. He currently represents the "A Just Russia - For Truth" faction. He is a member of the Committee on Culture, Youth Affairs, Sports, and Tourism and the Commission for Monitoring the Accuracy of Information on Income, Property, and Property Liabilities Submitted by Deputies, according to information on the Dagestan Parliament website.

By 5:20 p.m. Moscow time, the parliament's website and Sergei Melikov's Telegram channel had not commented on the Prosecutor General's Office's lawsuit against Murtuzaliev.

"Caucasian Knot" also reported that the Prosecutor General's Office filed a lawsuit demanding the confiscation of land plots, residential, and commercial real estate belonging to the former Secretary of State of Dagestan. Magomed-Sultan Magomedov and his relatives. The department estimated the value of the property at 500 million rubles. During his tenure as Dagestan's Secretary of State, Magomed-Sultan Magomedov kept a low profile, but he used his position to build a powerful group within the republic, according to local analysts.

On June 26, it was also reported that the Deputy Prosecutor General filed a civil lawsuit against Magomedov and his relatives in the Soviet District Court of Makhachkala. The court ordered the nationalization of Magomedov's oil transshipment complex and related companies, whose assets had previously been seized. In August, the FSBunveiled a theory that Magomedov was involved in the theft of the largest federal oil transshipment complex in the North Caucasus, Dagnefteprodukt, from the state. Property worth 3 billion rubles was seized from Magomedov and other defendants in the fraud case.