The property of former Deputy Defense Minister Tsalikov has been seized.

According to investigators, former First Deputy Defense Minister Ruslan Tsalikov created a criminal organization, whose members embezzled budget funds and laundered the stolen money between 2017 and 2024. He has also been charged with bribery. On March 5, Moscow's Basmanny District Court placed Ruslan Tsalikov under house arrest. According to the court, investigators did not insist on placing Sergei Shoigu's former first deputy in pretrial detention.

Moscow's Nikulinsky District Court has issued interim measures in the Prosecutor General's Office's anti-corruption lawsuit against former First Deputy Defense Minister Ruslan Tsalikov, according to the court's database. "The court has issued a ruling on securing (preliminary defense) of the claim," the court file states.

The case file states that the former first deputy defense minister's entire disputed property, worth over 7 billion rubles, is being seized, Interfax reported, citing a law enforcement source.

The documents state that Moscow's Nikulinsky Court has issued a ruling on securing (preliminary defense) of the claim. According to the law, such measures may include seizing the defendants' property, prohibiting them from performing certain actions, suspending the sale of property, collecting under a writ of execution, and imposing certain obligations on the defendant.

If a decision is made to secure the claim, the law provides for such measures as seizing the defendants' property, prohibiting them from performing certain actions, suspending the sale of property, and collecting under a writ of execution, RIA Novosti clarifies.

In addition to Tsalikov, eight individuals and three legal entities are named as defendants in the lawsuit, Kommersant reports. Among them are his sons Daniel and Zaur Tsalikov, daughters Elizaveta Gogichaeva and Yulia Gogaeva, two sons-in-law—Chermen Gogichaev and Georgy Gogaev—a "certain Mrs. Markovskaya," and businessman Timur Isakov (beneficiary of Sandora LLC, Slavyanovskaya LLC, United Textile Company LLC, and Ubik Textile LLC). The latter, along with Tsalikov, is a defendant in a case of organizing or participating in a criminal organization (Article 210 of the Criminal Code). According to Kommersant, it was with the help of relatives and their companies that Tsalikov, according to investigators, was able to launder criminal proceeds, investing, in particular, in the purchase of commercial real estate in the center of the capital—on Posledniy Pereulok and Zemlyanoy Val—worth over 500 million rubles. In mid-March, Kommersant reported that, according to the Investigative Committee, Tsalikov received two bribes—a Honda motorcycle and cash—for his general patronage of commercial entities.

"Caucasian Knot" also reported that the property and accounts of relatives of Mikhail Nadezhin, the former head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Ministry of Emergency Situations, were seized in a bribery case. In early October 2025, Moscow's Basmanny Court arrested Mikhail Nadezhin, the head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Ministry of Emergency Situations, for two months in a bribery case.