17:15, 2 April 2026

The court seized the land and houses of Rufat Ismailov.

A Moscow court has seized 533 million rubles worth of property belonging to former Dagestan Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Rufat Ismailov.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," at the end of February, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office filed a lawsuit against former Dagestan Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Rufat Ismailov for the seizure of 533 million rubles' worth of property.

In November 2023, Dagestan Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Rufat Ismailov and Deputy Head of the Investigative Department of the same Ministry of Internal Affairs Dalgat Abdulgapurov were arrested in Moscow on charges of accepting a large bribe and abuse of office. In December 2023, Abdul Abakarov, an investigator with the Control and Methodology Department, was arrested in connection with this case, accused of bribery. In the fall of 2025, the case was filed in court. Ismailov categorically protested his innocence. According to investigators, Ismailov and Abdulgapurov received 300,000 rubles for refusing to initiate a criminal case regarding the illegal construction of a house and one million rubles for a decision on the distribution of maternity capital funds. The abuse of power is linked to businessman Frolov, to whom, according to investigators, the accused gave 100 million rubles to purchase cryptocurrency mining equipment. After the businessman "began to evade his obligations," Ismailov and Abdulgapurov initiated criminal prosecution against him "based on statements from dummy victims" to force Frolov to return the money.

The lawsuit against Ismailov and four other defendants for the seizure of property, real estate, and vehicles was filed for violating anti-corruption laws, RIA Novosti reports.

In the lawsuit, the Prosecutor General's Office requested that Ismailov's property, valued at 533,674,000 rubles, be forfeited to the state. This amount, according to supervisory authorities, is many times greater than Ismailov's income for 2010-2022, Interfax reported today.

"The claims of the Prosecutor General's Office will be granted in full. The court's decision will take effect immediately," the court said in a statement.

Ismailov is a colonel in the justice department. In 2016, he took the position of deputy head of the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Dagestan, and in 2018, he became acting head of the department. In December 2019, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the republic.

Rufat Ismailov is at least the fifth high-ranking Dagestani official to become a defendant in a property seizure lawsuit in the past six months. Thus, in February, the Krasnodar court received a lawsuit from the Prosecutor General's Office demanding that land, houses, and business shares belonging to former State Duma Deputy Rizvangadzhi Isayev and his relatives be transferred to state property. In November 2025, the Prosecutor General's Office filed a lawsuit against Dagestani Parliament Deputy Murtuzali Murtuzaliev, his "common-law wife," and her relatives for the seizure of property. In September 2025, the Prosecutor General's Office filed a lawsuit demanding the seizure of land plots, residential and commercial real estate belonging to the former Secretary of State of Dagestan, Magomed-Sultan Magomedov, and his relatives. In August 2025, the Prosecutor General's Office filed a lawsuit to seize the property of the former mayor of Makhachkala, Said Amirov, and his 18 relatives.

In connection with the lawsuits against Amirov and Magomedov, the property of people unrelated to the former officials was seized. One of them faced the risk of having his property confiscated, Makhachkala lawyer and activist Arsen Magomedov reported in December 2025.

Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/422121