The Prosecutor General's Office has demanded that the property of former State Duma deputy Gadzhiev* be seized

The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia filed a lawsuit in the Soviet District Court of Makhachkala to recognize former State Duma deputy Magomed Gadzhiev* and his relatives as an extremist organization, demanding that their real estate worth more than 2 billion rubles be transferred to the state.

As "Caucasian Knot" reported, on May 26, 2023, the Ministry of Justice added former State Duma deputy Magomed Gadzhiev* to the register of foreign agents. The reason given was Gadzhiev*'s support for the Ukrainian authorities and his willingness to cooperate with foreign sources to obtain citizenship. The next day, Gadzhiev* was expelled from the United Russia party. In August 2024, a criminal case was opened against Gadzhiev* under a protocol for the absence of a foreign agent marking. In December 2024, a court in Makhachkala arrested more than 140 accounts and 26 real estate properties of former State Duma deputy Magomed Gadzhiev* and his relatives.

Following an investigation conducted on behalf of Russian Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office has filed a lawsuit in the Soviet District Court of Makhachkala to recognize former State Duma deputy Magomed Gadzhiev* and three other individuals as an extremist organization and to forfeit their real estate worth more than 2 billion rubles to the Russian Federation, TASS reports, citing a source in the department.

"On behalf of the Prosecutor General, a lawsuit has been filed in the Soviet District Court of Makhachkala to recognize Gadzhiev, his son, sister, and cohabitant as an extremist organization and to ban his activities on the territory of the Russian Federation," Interfax quotes a representative as saying. departments.

As the investigation established, after the start of the special military operation, the former State Duma deputy went abroad, where he expressed support for Ukraine, providing financial assistance to Ukrainian paramilitary formations, discrediting the Russian Armed Forces and justifying illegal sanctions against the Russian Federation, TASS writes

On the territory of Russia, Gadzhiev* retained highly liquid assets: commercial real estate, luxury housing and land plots in Dagestan, Moscow and the Moscow region with a total value of more than 2 billion rubles, registered in the name of his relatives and close persons and controlled by the companies "Usadba v Kadashi" and "Kvintessens", the income from which was transferred abroad. During the supervisory activities carried out under the supervision of the Prosecutor General of Russia, the supervisory agency demanded through the court that the property of the former deputy be converted into the income of the Russian Federation as a source of financing extremist activity.

In addition, the Prosecutor General's Office demanded that the license issued before September 15, 2033, be terminated for the company "Sulaknerud" controlled by Gadzhiev* (the founder of the company is his sister) for the extraction of sand and gravel mixture at the Chiryurt deposit in Dagestan. According to the Prosecutor General's Office, Gadzhiev* transfers the organization's profits to the United States and France, where he owns elite real estate, the agency reported.

"The ownership of highly liquid assets by the extremist association, registered in the names of Gadzhiev's* relatives and firms controlled by him, leads to the enrichment of its members and the development of their financial base. The assets in Russia provide the illegal group with a constant increase in capital, which generally creates favorable conditions for the existence and implementation of extremist aspirations and plans,” Vedomosti quoted a fragment of the Prosecutor General’s Office lawsuit.

In March 2025, the Polish publication GEO Polityka wrote that Gadzhiev* may have a bank account at Wells Fargo Bank in the United States, which holds more than $45 million. The US Internal Revenue Service asked the bank not to close the accounts, since Gadzhiev* provided it with information and is entitled to receive a reward. The publication also believes that the deputy is a co-owner of the Fantom Foundation, the company behind the Fantom cryptocurrency, a shareholder in several online casinos and a bookmaker, RBC reports.

Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that on October 9, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, speaking about the conflict around Wildberries, mentioned the senator from Dagestan Suleiman Kerimov, State Duma deputies Bekkhan Barakhoev and Rizvan Kurbanov. He called on them to prove their non-involvement in the order for his murder and warned of their readiness to declare a blood feud. On November 20, RIA Novosti published a video in which two men named former State Duma deputy Magomed Gadzhiev* from Dagestan as the author of the version of the assassination attempt on the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. They said that Gadzhiev* promised them a large reward.

Kadyrov and Senator Suleiman Kerimov found a way to end the story of the attempted murder by attributing the authorship of the information to former State Duma deputy Magomed Gadzhiev*, Dagestani journalists suggested. What preceded the statement about blood feud is described in the "Caucasian Knot" reference "How the shootout in Wildberries is connected with Kadyrov".

* added to the register of foreign agents by the Russian Ministry of Justice.

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