00:57, 14 February 2026

Adygea judge Adam Voitlev has been charged with bribery.

The head of the Investigative Committee, with the consent of the High Qualification Collegium of Judges of the Russian Federation, has opened a criminal case against retired judge Adam Voitlev of the Shovgenovsky District Court of Adygea. He is charged with accepting a bribe on an especially large scale.

As reported by Caucasian Knot, at the end of November 2025, the High Qualification Collegium of Judges approved the criminal prosecution of judge Adam Voitlev of the Shovgenovsky District Court, who is suspected of accepting a bribe of 2.5 million.

Adam Voitlev is the longest-serving judge in the Shovgenovsky District Court; he was appointed in 2015. There are three judges in this court, including the chairman, Timur Kerashev, who took over at the end of 2023. He previously served as a judge in the Koshekhabl District Court. Another judge, Kazbek Tlekhuch, was appointed in March 2021, according to Novaya Gazeta Kubani.

According to investigators, from June 2023 to January 2024, Voitlev, while serving as a judge, received a bribe of 2.5 million rubles from a defendant through an intermediary. The money was transferred in exchange for a judge's decision to return the criminal case against the defendant to the prosecutor and to lift the seizure of his property, Kommersant reported.

The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, with the consent of the High Qualification Collegium of Judges of the Russian Federation (HQCJ), opened a criminal case against Adam Voitlev for accepting a bribe on an especially large scale. .

It should be noted that the HQCJ had previously also announced that it would consider initiating a case against Mukhamed Tembotov, a former magistrate judge from Kabardino-Balkaria. In February, a criminal case was opened in Kabardino-Balkaria against Tembotov, who is accused of accepting bribes and acting as an intermediary in bribery.

"Caucasian Knot" also reported that on February 9, former chair of the Sovetsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don, Elena Kobleva, was found guilty of accepting a large bribe and sentenced to 10 years in a general regime penal colony.

Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/420783