Overview

• The Ivanovo regional prosecutor’s office filed a civil lawsuit on September 22 seeking to recover alleged corruption proceeds from former Ples mayor Alexey Shevtsov and to transfer roughly 150 properties to state ownership.
• Prosecutors allege Shevtsov used his elected posts to monopolize local real estate, hotel and catering markets via relatives and a network of linked companies, generating illegal income exceeding 1 billion rubles.
• The claim targets key tourist and commercial assets, including the Levitansky Ples museum complex, tour operator Plyos-Tur, a central shopping center, cafes, a real estate firm, a hotel company, a private security firm and an agroindustrial company.
• The filing seeks the transfer of eight companies and dozens of properties held by Shevtsov and family members, with 48 assets tied to him, 67 to his wife Natalia and 30 to his daughter Anastasia, and a local cadastral valuation topping 411 million rubles.
• Authorities cite earlier recoveries totaling more than 26 hectares since 2024, including a Volga riverside parcel of over 20 hectares leased for about 500 rubles a year, and note the new case now awaits court adjudication.