19:00, 19 July 2026

Two judges from the Krasnodar region have been stripped of their powers.

The powers of judges from Sochi and Novorossiysk have been terminated early; in one case, the reason was an investigator's appeal, and in the other, a complaint received.

The Qualification Collegium of Judges of the Krasnodar region made decisions to prematurely terminate the powers of two judges.

World judge of judicial district No. 103 (Central district of Sochi) Vitaly Lopukhin and judge of the Oktyabrsky district court of Novorossiysk Manolis Kerasov have been stripped of their powers and qualification classes. The reason in the first case was an appeal from the head of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the region, Andrey Maslov; in the second, a complaint from citizen Ushakov Yu.N., reports the judges' community website.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot", the Supreme Qualification Collegium of Judges allowed investigators to initiate a criminal case against judge Sergey Bogdanovich of the Lazarevsky district court of Sochi, who is suspected of receiving a bribe on a particularly large scale.

Translated automatically via OpenAI from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/425057