The Collegium has stripped two retired Kuban judges of their status.

The former chairman of the Prikubansky District Court of Krasnodar, Rustem Trakhov, and Vladimir Bakhmetyev, who headed the Khostinsky and then the Central District Courts of Sochi, were stripped of their status as retired judges following lawsuits from the Prosecutor General's Office. Therefore, they have also been stripped of the immunity that their status as judges provided.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," Aslan Trakhov headed the Supreme Court of Adygea since 1998. In 2019, Aslan Trakhov, upon reaching the retirement age, retired, after which the nominal owners of his assets began returning them to the former judge's family. During the trial, Aslan Trakhov and his son, Rustem Trakhov, admitted that they used their official positions for personal gain to acquire these assets. The panel of judges stripped the former chairman of the Supreme Court of Adygea of ​​his status as a retired judge.

The Qualification Collegium of Judges of the Krasnodar Territory revoked the status of retired judge Rustem Trakhov, former chairman of the Prikubansky District Court of Krasnodar.

This decision is related to violations he committed while serving as a judge and which were discovered after his retirement, and they constitute "grounds for imposing a disciplinary sanction in the form of early termination of his powers as a judge," the statement said.

According to the press service, it was also established that Trakhov failed to comply with the prohibitions and restrictions imposed on judges in connection with the exercise of their powers and engaged in activities incompatible with the status of a judge, Interfax reports.

Rustem Trakhov — the son of Aslan Trakhov, former chairman of the Supreme Court of Adygea. In September 2025, the Volzhsky City Court of the Volgograd Region seized family assets worth 19 billion rubles in favor of the Russian Federation. In January of this year, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Krasnodar confiscated the property of the Trakhovs' trusted representatives worth another 5 billion rubles. It was established that the Trakhovs, father and son, were engaged in commercial activities during their tenure and after resigning.

Vladimir Bakhmetyev, who headed the Khostinsky and then Central District Courts of Sochi, participated in the construction project in violation of anti-corruption prohibitions, registering the land plot in the name of relatives. Alexander Chernov, then chairman of the Krasnodar Regional Court, also invested in the project. The defendants were ordered to pay 50 million rubles in compensation to the municipality for the unauthorized construction, Kommersant reports.