A rural deputy has been arrested in Dagestan in a case of land fraud.

The court has placed under arrest a deputy from the Lak district, suspected in a case of fraud involving a land plot in a cottage settlement.

The Soviet district court of Makhachkala has detained a deputy of the assembly of deputies of the rural settlement "Kumukhsky rural council" of the Lak district, suspected under the article on fraud in especially large amounts (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), the Supreme Court of Dagestan reported today on its page on "VKontakte".

The court noted that the decision was made on October 25 at the request of the investigation. "Having heard the opinions of the parties, the court granted the request of the investigation and detained the suspect for a period of 2 months, that is, until December 22, 2026, inclusive," the message states.

According to the case materials, the deputy conspired with others to "acquire by deception" rights to a land plot in the cottage settlement "Kasabella", as well as 100% of the share in the charter capital of a commercial company.

"They offered the victim to transfer the rights to lease the specified cottage plot and 100% of the share in the charter capital of LLC 'Milom', promising in return to transfer nine cottages to him in a ready-to-use condition after the construction was completed. However, they did not intend to fulfill this promise," the publication cites the investigation's version.

According to investigators, the victim, "misled", transferred the rights and obligations of the land tenant and formalized a sales contract for the share in the charter capital "in favor of one of the members of the criminal community".

"As a result of these actions, the victim suffered property damage amounting to 7,213,843 rubles," the court reported.

Land fraud has repeatedly led to the prosecution of officials in Dagestan

The report on the struggle for the plot near Lake Ak-Gel raised questions for the authorities of Makhachkala

"Caucasian Knot" has also reported on other cases of criminal prosecution of Dagestani officials accused of fraud involving land plots.

Thus, in May 2025, the court placed under arrest the head of the administration of the Kaytagsky district, Alim Temirbulatov. According to the investigation, the official transferred ownership rights to land plots in the village of Madzhalis to relatives and acquaintances. In September 2026, the court sentenced him to 4.5 years of conditional imprisonment. The prosecutor's office explained the leniency of the sentence by the compensation for damages, the conclusion of a pre-trial agreement, and Temirbulatov's health condition.

In July 2025, the head of the Karabudakhkent district, Mahmud Amiraliyev, was arrested on charges of fraud. The official's arrest was related to violations in land issuance and the misuse of subsidies. Later, Amiraliyev was also accused of bribery.

In January of the same year, Jarullo Omarov, who had headed the Dakhadaevsky district for 15 years, was detained on suspicion of illegally formalizing the right to lease four agricultural land plots. The Soviet court of Makhachkala placed Jarullo Omarov under arrest in a fraud case.