Overview

• At a Moscow hearing, prosecutors alleged Viktor Momotov used his status to shield Marton hotels that offered hourly rooms, saunas and prostitution services.
• Prosecutors accused the network of business splitting and more than 500 million rubles in tax evasion, claims Momotov rejects as slander.
• They described a pattern of land reclassification, construction without permits and later court-enabled approvals, citing cases from Krasnodar and other regions.
• The General Prosecutor’s Office asked the court to forfeit assets worth at least 9 billion rubles, including 95 properties registered to Andrey and Ivan Marchenko.
• Momotov has resigned and lost his judicial mandate, the Marchenkos are in custody, and an expert said hotels could pass to Rosimushchestvo for sale or be demolished if deemed unsafe.