A court in Karachay-Cherkessia confiscated the property of former Minister Bugayev.

The Cherkessk City Court has seized 22 properties and three cars from Dmitry Bugayev, former Minister of Property and Land Relations of Karachay-Cherkessia. He has also been ordered to pay over 64 million rubles.

As reported by Caucasian Knot, in mid-April, the Cherkessk City Court arrested Dmitry Bugayev, former Minister of Property and Land Relations of Karachay-Cherkessia. Investigators accuse the official of abuse of office, which resulted in 16.7 million rubles in damages to the regional budget.

The Cherkessk City Court has ordered the confiscation of 22 properties and three cars belonging to Bugayev and his associates. The defendants were also ordered to pay the state over 64 million rubles, equivalent to the value of the expropriated property, the joint press service of the courts of Karachay-Cherkessia reported today on its Telegram channel.

Previously, the regional prosecutor's office requested that 40 highly liquid properties in Moscow, Krasnodar Krai, and Karachay-Cherkessia be forfeited to the state, as well as six cars belonging to Bugayev and his relatives, which the supervisory agency believed the former high-ranking official had acquired with unverified income. The total value of the assets exceeded 310 million rubles.

The defendants in the prosecutor's office's lawsuit, in addition to Bugayev, included his close relatives and the heads of commercial organizations. Today's court ruling has not yet entered into force, the press service clarified.

According to investigators, the former minister organized a sham auction to sell state property transferred to the regional treasury from the republican state unitary enterprise Teploenergo. Following the sham auction, the property was sold at a reduced price. The damage to the Karachay-Cherkessia budget exceeded 16.7 million rubles.

From 2022 to 2025, Dmitry Bugayev headed the ministry. Before that, he served as Deputy Prime Minister for Digitalization, Deputy Minister of Education, and Advisor to the Head of the Republic, Kommersant reported.

The "Caucasian Knot" also reported that in early May, the Supreme Court of Karachay-Cherkessia, after reconsidering the defense's appeal, upheld the prison sentence of Alexei Safonov, former head of the Stavropol Krai traffic police department. Safonov was sentenced in May 2025 to 20 years in a maximum-security penal colony for creating a criminal organization and accepting bribes.