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Courts in Russia are currently involved in taking actions against some former deputies from the Krasnodar Krai region, while others involved in the case have recently been detained and named by law enforcement and investigators.
According to records, the Prosecutor General’s Office has filed a lawsuit in the Central District Court of Sochi in a case that would involve converting an illegal earning from corruption of 2.8 billion rubles into Russian state revenue.
Tass reported that the lawsuit filed by the Deputy Prosecutor General was not only addressed to former State Duma deputy Anatoly Voronovsky, but more than 25 other accomplices.
Some of the main demands of the Prosecutor General’s Office were to confiscate five residential properties in Krasnodar, Sochi, and Moscow from Anatoly Voronovsky and his relatives.
Four residential premises in Armavir and Moscow were targeted towards Alexander Doreshenko and his relatives, while the requests to confiscate 42 residential premises, including 33 apartments in the city of Goryachiy Klyuch of the Krasnodar Territory, as well as land plots in Novorossiysk and non-residential real estate in Krasnodar, Anapa and Armavir from Deputy Alexander Karpenko.
Law enforcement officers knocked on the doors of Deputies Alexi Smaglyuk and Alexander Dashuk in the middle of the working day to discuss the sensitive topic of how officials had pocketed billions of rubles thanks to state contracts, which included benefiting from national projects.
In 2024, antitrust authorities had uncovered a cartel conspiracy worth 15 billion rubles, (this is when competitors agree to work together to extract more money from the budget), and one of the key contractors of the Transport Ministry, “Stroyugeregion”, was owned by the deputy of the Regional Parliament Alexander Karpenko, which was involved in the scheme.
Despite the fact that the cartel conspiracy was reported more than a year ago, Stroyugeregion continued to work with the ministry, and in 2025 alone had received state contracts worth more than 10 billion rubles, reported Kub_mash.
Following their discussions with the deputies, the FSB carried out searches at the office of Transport Minister for Krasnodar Alexei Pereverzev, concerning state contracts for road maintenance, including those won by Stroyugregion.
Owner Alexander Karpenko became one of the defendants in the lawsuit filed by the Prosecutor General’s Office against the former state Duma deputy Anatoly Voronovsky, which alleged that Karpenko and accomplices created a scheme for distributing state contracts for road works among the companies they needed.
Now, prosecutors were also demanding the seizure of illegally acquired property from all the deputies including their accomplices.
According to the case materials, the appointment of Alexei Pereverzev to the post of Transport Minister was lobbied by Voronovsky himself, which added further fuel to the fire when Pereverezev became another one of the defendants in the lawsuit.
Despite the investigations, Veniamin Kondratiev reappointed Pereverzev to his position yesterday in a move which also suggests that Pereverezev is going to serve no prison time or face a removal from politics in return for giving evidence.
On January 22, the Central Court in Sochi considered a petition for the selection of a preventive measure against Alexei Pereverzev, which was granted in the form of detention, with the term of 1 month and 26 days, as Pereverzev was taken into custody in the courtroom.
Soon after, the same court in Sochi also considered and arrested the two deputy transport ministers for a period of two months, following the presented charges of embezzling around 2 billion rubles while executing state contracts.
