04:59, 29 September 2025

A former judge from Krasnodar has been accused of seizing an agricultural enterprise.

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Using subordinate courts, the former chairman of the Krasnodar Regional Court, Alexander Chernov, seized the assets of the Dmitrievsky cooperative, which he subsequently sold.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," in August, following a lawsuit filed by the Russian Prosecutor General's Office, the court confiscated assets worth 13 billion rubles from the former chairman of the Krasnodar Regional Court, Alexander Chernov. Among the confiscated assets was the limited liability company Dmitrievskoye Agricultural Cooperative, which held 100 plots of land totaling five thousand hectares, with an estimated market value of over 1.7 billion rubles.

Former Chairman of the Krasnodar Regional Court, Alexander Chernov, participated in the seizure of an agricultural enterprise using the courts under his jurisdiction, RIA Novosti reports, citing court documents.

According to the prosecution, Chernov used judicial mechanisms to seize the Dmitrievskiy Agricultural Cooperative in 2007. On his instructions, the Kavkazsky District Court granted a motion for interim measures in the form of property seizure, filed on trumped-up grounds.

Chernov then ensured the capitalization of the cooperative's assets by replenishing the land fund with state land. He also blocked the allocation of plots to the owners of the shares, again using the Kavkazsky District Court. Thus, according to the case materials, Chernov received almost a billion rubles in dividends from the cooperative. In May 2024, 100% of the shares in its authorized capital were sold for 3.1 billion rubles. The former judge subsequently used the proceeds to "acquire highly liquid real estate, which he then commercialized." Caucasian Knot also reported that on September 23, the Prosecutor General's Office demanded that 97 properties registered to Andrey Marchenko, owner of the Marton hotel chain, and his son, Ivan Marchenko, be turned over to the state. The properties are located in nine Russian cities, including in the south of the country: 43 of them are in Krasnodar, 26 in Rostov-on-Don, 11 in Volgograd, and two in Sochi. The agency also demanded the seizure of all movable and immovable property belonging to Marchenko and his family members, as well as to the Chairman of the Council of Judges, Viktor Momotov, and other individuals—a total of 22 people on the list. After this, Momotov submitted his resignation, which was accepted by the Higher Qualification Collegium of Judges of the Russian Federation.

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Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/415842