The Prosecutor General's Office has demanded the seizure of property belonging to detained Ingush tax officials.

The Prosecutor General's Office filed a lawsuit demanding the forfeiture of the homes and foreign cars of former Ingush Federal Tax Service employees Magomed and Ilyas Kushtov, suspected of abuse of power resulting in multimillion-ruble damages, to the state.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," on November 10, it was reported that Ilyas Kushtov, an employee of the Federal Tax Service for Ingushetia, had been transferred from custody to house arrest. Kushtov was detained in late May and arrested on charges of abuse of power resulting in 137 million rubles in damages. Two more tax service employees have been arrested in connection with the same case.

The Prosecutor General's Office has demanded that the property and luxury cars of former employees of the Federal Tax Service for Ingushetia, Ilyas and Magomed Kushtov, be transferred to the state, according to a press officer for the Gagarinsky Court of Moscow, which received the corresponding lawsuit.

The Gagarinsky District Court of Moscow is considering an anti-corruption lawsuit filed by the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation against former employees of the Federal Tax Service for the Republic of Ingushetia, M.R. Kushtov, I.R. Kushtov, and their relatives. "The lawsuit states that former officials of the Federal Tax Service of Russia for the Republic of Ingushetia committed a crime that caused damage to the budget of the Russian Federation in the amount of 137.1 million rubles," TASS quoted him as saying today.

According to the lawsuit, the prosecutor's office is requesting the forfeiture of, among other things, three residential properties in Moscow, three land plots, residential and non-residential properties in Ingushetia and North Ossetia, as well as Mercedes, BMW, Toyota Land Cruiser, and GMC Yukon vehicles. The trial preparation is scheduled for December 8.

Magomed Kushtov served in the Ingush Federal Tax Service for 24 years, including as its head from 2019 to November 1, 2025. Ilyas Kushtov holds the position of deputy head of the department. According to the Prosecutor General's Office, the value of the Kushtovs' property significantly exceeds their official income, the agency writes.

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The Ministry of Internal Affairs for Ingushetia dismissed reports from law enforcement sources about searches of department heads as unreliable.

"Caucasian Knot" previously reported on other investigations into major thefts in Ingushetia. For example, in May 2024, a Moscow court arrested Magomed-Bashir Kalimatov (brother of the head of Ingushetia Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov), who previously headed the Ingushetia branch of Russian Post, in connection with the theft of two billion rubles by employees of the Pension Fund and Russian Post. He is charged with eight counts of fraud and creating a criminal organization.

The criminal prosecution of his brother did not undermine the position of the head of Ingushetia, since the pension thefts occurred within federal structures beyond the control of the regional leader, analysts noted.

In September 2025, it became known that the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Ingushetia, Mikhail Korobkin, was dismissed by presidential decree . Korobkin's dismissal was related to the discovery of non-existent employees in district police departments who had been receiving salaries from the budget for a long time. According to preliminary estimates, the damage amounts to approximately 1 billion rubles, the RTVI television channel reported, citing its sources.

The described theft scheme has long been common in law enforcement agencies in Dagestan and other regions of the North Caucasus, but the estimated damage figure of a billion rubles appears exaggerated, experts noted.