Overview
- Surgut City Court kept former Yugra first deputy governor Alexey Shipilov under house arrest but changed the place of enforcement from Khanty-Mansiysk to Surgut on December 4.
- The court set the next hearing in Shipilov’s case for December 16 after earlier delays tied to his confinement being in a different city.
- Investigators accuse Shipilov of taking at least 7.5 million rubles in bribes and of exceeding official powers, allegedly steering apartment buildings to a private manager that led to a municipal firm’s bankruptcy.
- Shipilov was detained in February 2024 and remained in custody until an appellate ruling on September 22, 2025 changed his measure to house arrest; United Russia has suspended his party membership.
- In a separate case, a Nizhny Novgorod court ordered Vice-Mayor Sergey Egorov to house arrest until February 2, 2026 on a bribery charge, with the investigator citing risks of flight or pressure on witnesses and the defense consenting to the measure.