The property of Alexei Kopaigorodsky has been transferred to the state.

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The court has seized the assets of former Sochi Mayor Alexei Kopaigorodsky, totaling 1.6 billion rubles, for state benefit.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," at the end of October, the court accepted the claim of the Prosecutor General's Office, which demanded the seizure of 14 apartments, land plots, cars, and other property belonging to Alexei and Yanina Kopaigorodsky and individuals and organizations associated with them. The defense of the former Sochi mayor called the agency's demand baseless.

On January 16, the Khostinsky District Court upheld the claim of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office and transferred the assets of former Sochi Mayor Alexei Kopaigorodsky, totaling 1.6 billion rubles, to the state, Kommersant reports.

The defendants in the case, in addition to Kopaigorodsky himself, were his wife Yanina, his mother Galina Kopaigorodskaya, lawyer Polina Chernyshenko, the autonomous non-profit organization "World of Childhood," four LLCs: Alex, Business Comfort-Yug, TM Otrazhenie, and Hugge, and eight individuals, including Moscow region lawyer Yevgeny Dvorovenko.

The Prosecutor General's Office demanded the seizure of 77 properties, primarily registered to Yanina Kopaigorodskaya and other defendants, for the state treasury. These properties are located in Sochi, Krasnodar, Gelendzhik, Moscow, St. Petersburg, and the Leningrad Region. The lawsuit also includes a collection of rare wines worth over 7.7 million rubles, jewelry, nearly two dozen wristwatches, warehouse complexes, land plots, parking spaces, and ten cars (including several Mercedes-Benzes and a Porsche 911). Separately, the agency demanded the seizure of over 215 million rubles in cash as an equivalent of property alienated prior to the trial.

The defendants claimed that the assets were of legal origin, but the court ordered the disputed property to be forfeited to the state.

As a reminder, Krasnodar native Alexey Kopaigorodsky has been the head of Sochi since 2019. On May 14, 2024, he submitted his resignation due to a transfer to a new position, and the following day the City Council accepted the mayor's resignation.