Sochi Court Orders Seizure of Ex-Mayor’s Assets Worth 1.67 Billion Rubles

Overview

• Hostinsky District Court of Sochi granted the General Prosecutor’s suit, transferring assets linked to Alexey Kopaygorodsky and his relatives to the state valued at no less than 1,673,633,247 rubles.
• Prosecutor filings describe elite and commercial real estate and land registered across Krasnodar Krai, Leningrad Oblast, Saint Petersburg and Moscow.
• Searches documented cash, luxury cars, watches, jewelry, numerous icons, a Damascus steel firearm from the early 19th century and wines priced up to two million rubles per bottle.
• The court itemized jewelry worth about 51 million rubles, including a two-carat diamond valued at 3.5 million rubles and rings with sapphire and emeralds priced in the tens of millions.
• Kopaygorodsky faces charges of embezzlement, a 43 million ruble bribe taken via his wife and money laundering, while his wife is charged with witness coercion; both remain in custody and deny guilt.