An Ingushetia resident asked Bastrykin to intervene in his family's dispute with officials.

Officials and security forces are pressuring the Tochiyev family, attempting to evict them from their home in the village of Verkhnie Achaluki, Ibragim Tochiyev stated in an appeal to the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. According to Tochiyev, the village administration managed to illegally revoke the family head's title to the land and house.

The Tochiyev family from the village of Verkhnie Achaluki has been engaged in a long-standing legal battle with officials demanding their eviction from their home. In 1986, the village administration allocated a plot of land with an old building to local resident Alaudin Tochiyev, who renovated it into a residential building. Ten years later, in 1996, Tochiyev purchased the land from Khamzat Chapanov, the director of School No. 22. In 2019, he registered ownership of the house and land, receiving the title documents from the Multifunctional Center (MFC). In 2021, when Chapanov, a participant in the deal, died, the village head and the new school principal initiated the process of evicting the Tochiyevs from their home. They claimed that the land and building were still listed on the school's books, accusing Alaudin Tochiyev of illegally seizing the land.

We were pressured in every possible way, searched, and summoned to various agencies for interviews.

The Tochiyevs' son, Ibrahim, appealed to Alexander Bystrykin, head of the Investigative Committee, asking him to take personal control of the case, the Memorial Human Rights Center* reported today. Officials and village council members visited the Tochiyevs' home again in late November 2025, demanding that they move out, human rights activists note.

“During all these years of legal proceedings, we have been subjected to all sorts of pressure, searches, and summoned to various agencies for interviews. They tried to bring a criminal case against my father for fraud, and they illegally opened an administrative case against me, thanks to the village administration. Also, in 2024, bailiffs, at the initiative of the administration, evicted us, also illegally. I believe this is an organized crime committed by a group of individuals acting in concert,” Ibrahim stated in a video, asking for criminal prosecution of “everyone involved in this lawlessness.”

According to Ibrahim Tochiyev, investigators found no evidence of fraud or any other crime in his father’s actions, but officials were still able to revoke his title deeds to the house and land. The village administration conducted a land survey—illegally, according to Tochiev—after which the Ingush Ministry of Property transferred the plot and house to its ownership, bearing the same cadastral numbers previously assigned to Tochiev.

The administration then filed a lawsuit to evict the family. In 2022, the Malgobek City Court ruled that Tochiev lacked ownership of the plot, but later overturned this decision due to newly discovered circumstances. The district prosecutor's office then filed a lawsuit to evict the Tochievs; the same court partially upheld it, again recognizing the Tochievs' lack of ownership of the land but refusing to evict them.

The lawsuit reached the Supreme Court of Ingushetia in December 2025, but it did not settle the matter: the court denied the request to transfer the plot and house to the republic's ownership, but did not secure Tochiev's ownership of the plot. Meanwhile, the village head, without waiting for a court decision, continued to visit the Tochiyevs with his subordinates and threaten to evict them by force if they did not vacate their house and land. "They promised to return with security forces," Fortanga reported in November 2025, citing the Tochiyevs.

"Caucasian Knot" wrote that in 2022, a court sentenced the deputy head of the Verkhnie Achaluki village administration to three years' probation. The court found that the official had abused his authority by transferring a plot of land under a local school to private ownership—"a plot of land with an area of 1,200 square meters, on which the school's administrative building was located." The area of the plot and the description of the building indicate that this was the plot where the Tochiyevs live. The local prosecutor's office initiated the prosecution of the deputy head of the village in this case.