Sergei Simonenko's case has been sent to the Rostov court for consideration.

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The Cassation Court granted the prosecutor's office's motion to change the territorial jurisdiction of the case of former deputy head of the Kuban Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Sergei Simonenko, and transferred it to Rostov-on-Don.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," Sergei Simonenko, deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for Krasnodar Krai, is accused of organizing the arson attacks on cars belonging to the family of his former subordinate, as well as of attempting to assassinate him. On February 10, Simonenko's case was transferred to the Krasnodar Regional Court and forwarded to the Fourth Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction for a change in territorial jurisdiction.

The Fourth Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction transferred the criminal case against Sergei Simonenko, former deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for Krasnodar Krai, and Melko Dzhemo, former head of the Seversky District Department of the regional Ministry of Emergency Situations, to the Proletarsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don, Kommersant reported on February 17.

The cassation court made this decision at the request of the prosecutor's office.

As a reminder, the victims in the case include a former Ministry of Emergency Situations employee – Simonenko's subordinate – and his relatives. The case against Simonenko has been combined with the case of three of his possible accomplices. According to investigators, Yevgeny Kauts, Dmitry Nadzha, and Alexander Plotnikov threw Molotov cocktails into the victims' yard in Korenovsk on February 28, 2019, causing two cars to burn.

In August 2025, the Third Appellate Court of General Jurisdiction in Sochi upheld the legality of the Krasnodar Regional Court's decision to seize Sergei Simonenko's property and funds totaling 360 million rubles in favor of the state. According to the prosecutor's office, Simonenko abused his official position to enrich himself illegally, registering the property in the names of relatives and trusted individuals. Simonenko himself claimed to have inherited money from his father, who headed the Kuban experimental farm. In March 2025, a court in Sochi denied Sergei Simonenko's wife's request to unfreeze the accounts frozen as part of the criminal case. Svetlana Simonenko requested that the frozen accounts be lifted so she could receive funds up to the subsistence minimum for each family member. The courts also denied Svetlana Simonenko's request to lift the seizure of her real estate.