The court confirmed the seizure of the property of the founder of the Pokrovsky concern.

The Krasnodar Regional Court has upheld a decision to transfer to the state real estate worth 28 billion rubles belonging to the founder of the Pokrovsky concern, Andrei Korovayko, who previously held the position of federal inspector in the office of the presidential envoy to the Southern Federal District.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," in December 2025, a Moscow court found Sergei Echkalov, former head of the Pokrovsky concern's security service, guilty of extorting property from farmers in Kuban and the Rostov region and coercing them to give false testimony and sentenced him to 16 years in prison.

According to the Prosecutor General's Office, Korovayko used his official position in the office of the presidential envoy (2001-2004) to illegally seize land fund and the creation of an agribusiness. The supervisory authority demanded that 372 real estate properties be transferred to the state, the joint press service of the courts of the Krasnodar Territory reported today on its Telegram channel.

Earlier, the Kanevsky District Court upheld the Prosecutor General's Office's claim. Korovaiko's defense attempted to appeal the district court's decision of May 12, 2025, but the Krasnodar Regional Court upheld the Kanevsky District Court's decision on appeals.

Ultimately, the court ordered the seizure of 372 real estate properties for the state. These included land plots, commercial and residential properties valued at over 28 billion rubles. All assets are located in the Krasnodar and Altai Krais, as well as in the Rostov Region, the press service clarified.

As a reminder, in 2018, former Rostov judge Svetlana Martynova was sentenced to seven years in prison for fraud involving the Tsapkov family's land. In June 2021, while in prison, Martynova turned herself in. She admitted to transferring five million rubles to judges of the Kushchevsky District Court for ruling on the expropriation of more than five thousand hectares of land from Nadezhda Tsapkov. The text of the confession indicates that she did this in 2011 at the request of the beneficiaries of the Pokrovsky concern. A company representative then reported a smear campaign against the concern.

In April 2021, lawyers Genrikh Khachaturov, Vladislav Brazhnikov, and Alexander Voynalovich, who collaborated with the Pokrovsky concern, as well as Alexander Glazyrin, deputy director of Agrocomplex Kushchevsky LLC, were detained. The central office of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case against them for extortion, as well as bribery or coercion to testify. Sergei Echkalov, head of the Pokrovsky concern's security service, escaped arrest; he was placed on the federal wanted list. The director of the concern and its main owner, Andrei Korovaiko, and his partner, Arkady Chebanov, are also defendants in the criminal case.

On November 4, 2010, an incident occurred in the home of Kushchevsky farmer Server Ametov. The mass murder that sparked the investigation into Sergei Tsapok's gang. The attack on Ametov's estate was motivated by Tsapok's desire to avenge the death of his brother, Nikolai, who was murdered in 2002. Twelve people, including four children, were killed in the brutal murder. The gang members were sentenced to lengthy prison terms, and Sergei Tsapok himself died in prison, according to a report published on the "Caucasian Knot" titled ""The Case of the Tsapok Gang".