The court confiscated assets worth over a billion rubles from the former Secretary of State of Dagestan.

The Sovetsky District Court of Makhachkala upheld the civil suit of the Prosecutor General's Office and confiscated property worth 1.2 billion rubles from former Dagestan State Secretary Magomed-Sultan Magomedov and his relatives.

As reported by Caucasian Knot, in September 2025, the Prosecutor General's Office filed a lawsuit demanding the confiscation of land plots, residential and commercial real estate belonging to Magomed-Sultan Magomedov and his relatives. The agency estimated the property's value at 500 million rubles.

The court found that Magomedov, while in power, seized the state-owned enterprise Dagnefteprodukt from federal property and converted it to his own use. It was the sole operator for transshipping oil arriving at the Makhachkala commercial seaport. It included 15 branches and owned 67 land plots, more than 360 buildings, structures, and facilities, including pipelines, gas stations, and other infrastructure, the press service of the Dagestan courts reported today on Telegram.

Using illegally acquired state property, Magomedov established the companies Kaspetrolservis, Nefteproduktsnab, Dagestanskie Novye Tekhnologii (oil refineries), and their management company, MSB Holding. Following a lawsuit filed by the Prosecutor General's Office, the same court in June of last year transferred these companies, with a combined capitalization of over 95.3 billion rubles, to federal ownership, claiming they were obtained through corrupt means.

During an additional investigation, it was discovered that Magomedov used part of the proceeds from these companies to purchase real estate and vehicles, which he registered in the names of relatives and controlled individuals. Specifically, between 2000 and 2023, the defendants acquired more than 50 properties valued at over 1.2 billion rubles, including 27 apartments, 17 buildings and non-residential premises, 13 land plots, and 17 cars.

As a result, the court ordered the state to seize 13 land plots with a total area of ​​2 hectares, 11 buildings, 6 non-residential premises, and 27 apartments located in Makhachkala, Pyatigorsk, and Moscow, as well as 17 cars, including luxury cars.

As a reminder, Magomed-Sultan Magomedov was appointed Secretary of State of Dagestan in 2021. Prior to this appointment, he served for over 15 years as the CEO of Dagnefteprodukt. He is also the founder of the Anzhi football club. The Caucasian Knot also reported that in an anti-corruption lawsuit against Magomed Kaitov, the former head of the Interregional Grid Company of the North Caucasus, the Prosecutor General's Office demanded the confiscation of 81 transformer substations in Khasavyurt.