About 20 Kuban organizations have been arrested following a lawsuit against Anatoly Voronovsky.

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The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has filed a lawsuit seeking the seizure of the assets of former State Duma deputy from Kuban, Anatoly Voronovsky, current deputy Andrei Doroshenko, and several other individuals. Bailiffs have seized approximately 20 organizations specializing in road construction.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," on December 3, it was reported that Moscow's Basmanny Court remanded Anatoly Voronovsky into custody. The former vice governor, who faces up to 15 years in prison, pleaded not guilty to bribery charges. At the end of December, the court extended his arrest.

The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation has filed an anti-corruption lawsuit seeking the transfer of assets of former State Duma deputy from Krasnodar Krai Anatoly Voronovsky and other defendants to the state, RIA Novosti reported today.

In addition to Voronovsky himself, the lawsuit names current State Duma deputy Andrei Doroshenko and Krasnodar Krai Legislative Assembly deputy Alexander Karpenko, as well as nearly three dozen other individuals with ties to road repair organizations. Since 2016, the defendants in the lawsuit have obtained at least 2.8 billion rubles through corruption.

According to the case materials, Voronovsky, after becoming Minister of Transport of the Krasnodar Krai in January 2016, decided to obtain illegal compensation from road transport companies by recruiting individuals under his control, including Doroshenko and Karpenko. While serving as Deputy Governor of the Krasnodar Krai, Voronovsky also violated the legal ban on business activities. After becoming a State Duma deputy, he continued to influence regional government decisions regarding road construction.

The Prosecutor General's Office's anti-corruption lawsuit against Voronovsky, Doroshenko, Karpenko, and others involves at least 170 properties—land plots, residential and non-residential premises, and parking spaces—in Krasnodar Krai, Crimea, Karachay-Cherkessia, Moscow, and the Moscow Region.

As part of the lawsuit, bailiffs seized approximately 20 road construction organizations affiliated with the defendants in Krasnodar Krai as a security measure. Specifically, this concerns Ankar LLC, KSK-Betonstroy LLC, Osnova LLC, Stroyugregion LLC, and Ust-Labinsk MZhBK Plant LLC, all of which are founded by Karpenko.

As a reminder, at the end of November, Anatoly Voronovsky, who became a State Duma deputy in 2021, filed for early resignation. Prior to this, on November 11, the State Duma approved the stripping of his parliamentary immunity at the request of the prosecutor's office. The State Duma later stripped Voronovsky of his mandate early, approving his request.

According to investigators, Voronovsky received bribes in the form of property and services from Safarbiy Napso, director of the Dagomys Road Repair and Construction Department. The total value of the bribe is estimated at more than 25 million rubles - this includes an apartment in Krasnodar, renovations and furnishings in the house of the deputy's son in Sochi, construction of a dam and cleaning of a lake in the Ust-Labinsky district on the deputy's family's land, as well as agricultural equipment for Voronovsky's relatives.

At the end of October, a court in Sochi sentenced Safarbiy Napso to four years in prison, finding him guilty of embezzling property from an enterprise.