A court in Cherkessk confiscated the assets of Sagid Murtazaliev.

The property of the former head of the Pension Fund in Dagestan, Sagid Murtazaliyev, worth hundreds of millions of rubles, has been confiscated by the state at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," since 2015, the former head of the Dagestan branch of the Russian Pension Fund (PFR), Sagid Murtazaliyev, has been arrested in absentia and is on the international wanted list. Investigators believe that in 2010, he transferred money through his relative, the former head of the Kizlyar district of Dagestan, Andrei Vinogradov, to militants who subsequently shot and killed the deputy head of the Center for Combating Extremism in Dagestan, Shevket Kudzhayev, and attempted to assassinate the vice-mayor of Kizlyar, Vasily Naumochkin. Andrei Vinogradov was sentenced to 15 years in a maximum-security penal colony on November 22, 2018. At that time, Murtazaliev, who had fled the investigation abroad, maintained limited influence in Dagestan, according to journalists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot."

On November 24, the Cherkessk City Court granted the claim of the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation to confiscate the property of the former head of the Pension Fund office in Dagestan for state benefit. The property in question concerns five properties that Murtazaliev, according to the supervisory agency, acquired with unconfirmed income.

From April 2010 to November 2015, when Murtazaliev was the manager of the Pension Fund office in Dagestan, he declared 4.58 million rubles in income. The basis for the lawsuit was the "obvious discrepancy between Murtazaliev's expenses and his legal income." The prosecutor's office discovered that during this same period, he purchased real estate that was formally registered to his relatives, according to a report from the United Press Service of the Courts of Karachay-Cherkessia.

The value of the real estate that Sagid Murtazaliev acquired with illegal income was estimated at over 417 million rubles in March 2025.

"Five real estate properties were seized and 118,998,952 rubles were recovered, equivalent to the value of the property expropriated by the time the lawsuit was filed," according to a statement on the OPS's official Telegram channel.

The decision has not yet entered into legal force, the statement noted. In addition to Sagid Murtazaliev himself, three of his relatives were defendants in the Deputy Prosecutor General's lawsuit, Interfax-Yug reports.