Journalists linked the beneficiaries of the Anapa beach opening to crime.

A kilometer-long stretch of beach in Vityazevo, excluded from the emergency zone by decision of the mayor of Anapa, is used by three resorts owned by members of the same family. Their names have been mentioned by journalists in publications about bribery, a hostile takeover of a sanatorium, and a contract killing.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," on May 8, Anapa Mayor Svetlana Maslova signed a decree excluding a test section of beach in the Vityazevo area from the danger zone. Thus, the beaches of the children's resort "Vita," the children's health complex "Pearl of Russia," and the Miracleon hotel in Vityazevo will be able to operate during the resort season.

The decision to exclude a kilometer-long stretch of beach in Vityazevo from the emergency zone was made in the interests of one family, whose members have been repeatedly mentioned in media reports on crime, according to the Krasnodar publication "Protokol."

All three resorts using this beach—Vita, "Pearl of Russia," and "Miracleon"—are owned by the Dimoyev family, according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (USRLE), which has become one of the largest owners of resort property in Anapa over the past 20 years.

One member of this family was arrested in 2011 while handing over 10 million rubles to a Rosimushchestvo official. According to investigators, the bribe was paid to appoint a controlled individual as director of the Rossiyanka sanatorium. The plan included a fictitious bankruptcy and a hostile takeover of a facility worth approximately 600 million rubles, Kommersant reported.

Journalists note that the outcome of this criminal case is unknown, but Dimoyev, who was arrested at the time, is now listed as the owner of the Zhemchuzhina sanatorium and the Democracy Hotel in Anapa, located in the village of Sukko.

Another member of the Dimoyev family has managed the Malaya Bukhta sanatorium since 2012. In the early 2000s, this facility was of interest to Sergey Zirinov, a member of the Kuban Legislative Assembly, who is currently serving a 22-year sentence in a maximum-security penal colony. Zirinov was convicted, among other things, of the murder of Malaya Bukhta CEO Vitaly Sadovnichy and his wife, committed in 2002 by members of his gang.

According to investigators, the gang, founded in 1999 by Sergei Zirinov and Ambartsum Eiriyan, attacked citizens with firearms in Anapa and Novorossiysk from March 2002 to February 2013 "with the intent of murdering them for mercenary motives." The group controlled a significant portion of businesses in Anapa. At the end of December 2024, the court sentenced Igor Nekhaenko, former head of the criminal investigation department of the Anapa Department of Internal Affairs, to 20 years in prison. He is believed by investigators to be a member of Zirinov's criminal group.

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