The Investigative Committee has opened a case against a former judge from Sochi.

In September 2023, more than 120 buildings in Sochi were declared illegal and subject to demolition. In connection with this, two judges of the Central District Court, including Valery Sluka, resigned. The court's chairman and another judge were stripped of their powers.

According to the investigation, between June 2021 and July 2022, Valery Sluka unreasonably accepted citizens' claims for consideration, violating territorial jurisdiction. The judge failed to include the defendants in the proceedings and failed to examine the evidence. As a result, the former judge issued seven knowingly unjust decisions that led to the illegal seizure of land in Sochi from municipal property, Interfax reported today, citing the press service of the Investigative Committee of Russia.

"The Chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, with the consent of the High Qualification Collegium of Judges of the Russian Federation, has opened a criminal case on seven counts of crimes under Part 2 of Article 286, Part 1 of Article 305 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (abuse of office 1 and issuing knowingly unjust decisions 2 ), against Judge Valery Sluka of the Central District Court of Sochi, whose powers "The construction works were terminated early," the press service said in a statement.

The Krasnodar Regional Court overturned the unfounded decisions of the Central District Court of Sochi and returned the plots to city ownership, the department clarified.

Sochi residents have repeatedly complained about the problem of illegal construction in the city. As of early December 2023, 215 buildings were included in the register of illegally constructed apartment buildings in the Krasnodar Territory, more than half of them are in Sochi, according to local authorities.

In 2024, the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia filed a lawsuit demanding that the transfer of land plots on which apartment buildings had already been built to developers be overturned. This concerns, in particular, the Morskaya Simfoniya residential complex, which was upheld by a court. This decision was overturned by a higher court, and the judge who made it resigned.

The "Caucasian Knot" also reported that on January 27, Anna Minkova, Vice Governor of Kuban, was detained on suspicion of committing corruption crimes. On January 20, it was reported that Minkova was being investigated for possible involvement in illegal enrichment using public funds.