A court has seized 33 million rubles from the head of a district in Dagestan.

33 million rubles were discovered in the accounts of the wife of Ruslan Gamzatov, head of the Botlikh District. The official's explanation that the money belonged to his businessman relative was not satisfactory to the court, which seized the funds. The Supreme Court of Dagestan upheld the decision.

The state seized 33 million rubles from the family of Gamzatov, head of the Botlikh District of Dagestan. First, the district court, and now the Supreme Court of the republic, sided with the prosecutor's office, Chernovik reported today.

According to information on the Botlikh District Court's website, the prosecutor's office filed a lawsuit against the official and his wife on June 16, 2025, and the court heard it on September 11, 2025. The prosecutor's office has demanded that the wife of Ruslan Gamzatov, head of the republic's Botlikh District, pay over 33 million rubles, which were deposited into her accounts over three years, from 2022 to 2024. The third party in the case is the Anti-Corruption Directorate of the Head of the Republic of Dagestan. Questions about the official arose following an audit of his income declarations. During the investigation, the head of the district explained that the accounts of the head of the district's wife were used by his cousin, the director of Tron LLC, to accept payment for goods sold by his organization. The official's wife and his relative gave similar explanations.

Nevertheless, the court ordered the official to pay 33,036,022 rubles, as well as a state fee of 163,000 rubles.

The decision was appealed to the Supreme Court of Dagestan, which upheld the first-instance court's verdict on December 26, 2025.

Based on the court's decision, a writ of execution was issued, according to data on the court's website.

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The head of the Botlikh District himself did not comment on the court's decision on his Telegram channel.