A Sochi court confiscated billions of rubles worth of Voronovsky's assets.

The Central District Court of Sochi has seized assets worth 23.3 billion rubles belonging to former State Duma deputy Anatoly Voronovsky and individuals associated with him, including Kuban Transport Minister Pereverzev.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," in early February, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office filed a lawsuit to seize the assets of former Kuban State Duma deputy Anatoly Voronovsky, current deputy Andrei Doroshenko, and several other individuals. On January 20, the Central District Court of Sochi accepted the lawsuit for proceedings. The case also includes 27 other defendants. At the end of December 2025, the court extended the arrest of Anatoly Voronovsky. The former vice governor, who faces up to 15 years in prison, pleaded not guilty to bribery charges. According to investigators, he committed the crime before receiving his parliamentary mandate, in 2019-2020, when he was vice-governor of Kuban and oversaw the road sector.

In addition to Anatoly Voronovsky, the defendants in the lawsuit included State Duma deputy Andrei Doroshenko, Krasnodar Krai Legislative Assembly deputy Alexander Karpenko, as well as the regional Minister of Transport and Road Management, Alexei Pereverzev, and two of his deputies. In total, 30 individuals were named in the lawsuit, and 19 organizations were brought in as third parties, Kommersant reported today.

The prosecutor's office's lawsuit states that since 2016, Voronovsky, first serving as Minister of Transport and Road Management of the Krasnodar Territory and then as a State Duma deputy from the Krasnodar Territory, with the assistance of individuals under his control (Moskovchenko, Doroshenko, Karpenko, Pereverzev, Kosyanov, Savenko, Smaglyuk, Dashuk, and others), influenced decisions by regional government bodies in the area of ​​road activities.

Thus, under Voronovsky's patronage, Doroshenko from 2018 to 2021 and Karpenko from 2021 to 2025 headed the Krasnodar Regional Association of Regional Industry Association of Employers "Union" Kuban Road Workers, a membership in which was a mandatory requirement for road construction organizations to participate in procurement. The defendants used the association's platform to find contractors, distribute work volumes among its members, and determine the amount of illegal remuneration.

The defendants laundered the corrupt proceeds through the "My Kuban" Foundation for Assistance to the Construction of Social and Cultural Facilities. Between 2017 and 2024, at the defendants' request, 46 road industry companies contributed more than 1.9 billion rubles to the foundation.

In another case, Voronovsky ordered transport sector organizations to purchase raw materials and fuel exclusively from organizations controlled by him through Moskovchenko, Ponomarev, Tkach, and Lagunov. As a result, from 2016 to 2019, the organizations reaped corrupt income totaling 968.1 million rubles. Since 2016, the defendants have received at least 2.8 billion rubles in corrupt enrichment.

The court has seized 19 enterprises, with assets worth 21.7 billion rubles, and 207 properties in Moscow, Krasnodar, Yalta, Novorossiysk, Armavir, Goryachy Klyuch, on the coast of the Sea of ​​Azov, and in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, worth over 1 billion rubles. Shares in various companies, account funds, and securities have also been confiscated, according to the joint press service of the courts of Krasnodar Krai.

Furthermore, the court ordered the defendants to pay the value of the property they had managed to sell – over 95 million rubles. Regional Legislative Assembly Deputy Karpenko, Kuban Transport Minister Pereverzev, and his deputies Dashuk and Smaglyuk acknowledged the claims in full, the court noted.

The construction of highways near residential buildings and the poor condition of existing roads have repeatedly been the cause of complaints from residents of the region. For example, in December 2025, residents of Kurchatov Street in Krasnodar called on authorities to reconsider plans to build a highway on the site of a green recreation area near their homes. Their appeals to officials, they complained, went unanswered. According to the plans, the new highway will run from Rostovskoye Shosse Street, along Kurchatov Street, and exit onto 40 Years of Victory Street. The authorities plan to demolish part of the overpass and build a new structure, widening the roadway from four to five lanes. Caucasian Knot also reported that Krasnodar Krai Deputy Minister of Transport Dashuk was arrested in early February. Former head of the Kuban Road Workers' Union, Daria Chubachuk, and entrepreneurs Igor Serdyuk and Yevgeny Nikogda were also sent to pretrial detention. All are defendants in the case against former State Duma deputy Anatoly Voronovsky and were among the defendants in the Prosecutor General's Office lawsuit. ...