05:17, 4 July 2026

The court lifted the arrest on 4,430 land plots in Sochi.

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Due to the expiration of the statute of limitations, the court lifted the arrest on 4,430 land plots, restrictions on which were imposed in connection with the fraud case involving the lands of the Sochi National Park.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot", at the end of January, the Constitutional Court of Russia established that the authorities of the Krasnodar Territory must return the land plot that ended up within the Sochi National Park to its owner, or provide him with compensation if there is no evidence that the plot was acquired dishonestly.

The mass seizure of land plots in the Krasnodar Territory is related to the fraud case involving the lands of the Sochi National Park: 11,066 land plots were arrested, including plots allocated by the authorities to large families, and then the courts began to deprive owners of property rights to these lands en masse, according to the report of "Caucasian Knot" "The struggle of Sochi residents for lands in the national park".

The Central District Court of Sochi terminated the criminal case initiated in 2021 and lifted the arrest on 4,430 land plots due to the expiration of the statute of limitations, writes "Morning South" on July 3, citing a statement from State Duma deputy Konstantin Zatulin.

The criminal case, due to which land plots were mass arrested, which the investigation believed were illegally removed from the Sochi National Park based on forged documents in the 1990s-2000s, is closed.

The ruling to close the case and lift the encumbrance from the plots is part of large-scale disputes over the lands of the national park. Initially, more than 11,000 plots with a total area of about five thousand hectares were arrested in Sochi. The mentioned 4,430 plots were treated as a single large block in the case. Legally, as Zatulin noted, the court's decision is still in the process of formalization, so there is currently no data on the lifting of restrictions in the Rosreestr, writes "Kuban 24".

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Translated automatically via OpenAI from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/424646