$1.1B flowed from the state budget into the pockets of ministers, police generals and judges. Now Russia claws it back.
Over 5–7 years, authorities seized 100B rubles in corruption cases.
In total, the state grabbed 4T rubles ($44B) in assets. It sold only 8%. ––Moscow Times.1/
Example: billionaire Konstantin Strukov.
The state seized his gold company Yuzhuralzoloto. He had funded United Russia for years. Now he sits in pretrial detention. 2/
Mid-level officials fell too. Former Ural road chief Alexei Borisov owned: 19 land plots, 15 houses, 26 apartments, 40 commercial spaces. Authorities moved to confiscate them. 3/
Former Sochi mayor Alexei Kopaygorodsky: 50 properties, 15 land plots, 10 cars. Former Rostov transport minister Vladimir Okunev: 30 properties, 25 cars. 4/
Former head of Adygea’s Supreme Court Aslan Trakhov: 114 land plots, 26 houses, several shopping centers — accumulated over 20 years in office. The state now scrambles to manage what it seized.
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