The Prosecutor General's Office has demanded the confiscation of Rufat Ismailov's land and houses.

The prosecutor's office valued the land plots, houses, and cars of former Dagestani Deputy Interior Minister Rufat Ismailov at half a billion rubles and demanded their transfer to the state. The agency's lawsuit marks at least the fifth attempt in six months to seize the property of Dagestani officials.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," in November 2023, Dagestani Deputy Interior Minister Rufat Ismailov and the deputy head of the Investigative Department of the same ministry, Dalgat Abdulgapurov, were arrested in Moscow on charges of accepting a large bribe and abuse of power. In December 2023, Abdul Abakarov, an investigator with the Control and Methodological Department, was arrested in connection with the same case, accused of accepting a bribe. In the fall of 2025, the case was sent to court. Ismailov categorically maintained his innocence.

Prosecutor's Office values ​​Ismailov's property at 533 million

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has filed a lawsuit against former Dagestan Deputy Interior Minister Rufat Ismailov for the seizure of property worth 533 million rubles, a TASS source in law enforcement told TASS.

According to him, a prosecutor's investigation conducted after Ismailov's arrest revealed that he has property worth a total of 533 million 674 thousand rubles, which "many times exceeds his income for 2010-2022," the agency reported on February 27.

According to the information, According to the income reports Ismailov filed for himself, his wife, and their six children, his sources of income were his salary, a combat veteran's pension, child benefits, and interest on bank deposits. His wife's sources of income were the sale of a car and gifts from relatives. From 2010 to 2022, Rufat Ismailov officially earned 19.6 million rubles, and his wife 3.3 million, most of which were gifts from relatives, Kommersant reports. However, the prosecutor's office believes Ismailov owns luxury goods worth 8.4 million rubles, including silverware: tea sets, pitchers, trays, and candy bowls. According to the agency, Ismailov, who became deputy minister in 2019, is the owner of numerous watches, including Cartier and Omega watches valued at half a million rubles each, and various jewelry.

Furthermore, prosecutors believe that Ismailov is the owner and beneficial owner of eight land plots, five buildings, six cars, including a Mercedes and a BMW, as well as parking spaces in Dagestan, Moscow, and other regions. According to the agency, the real estate and vehicles acquired between 2020 and 2023 were registered to individuals affiliated with him. Moreover, the people in whose names the assets were registered testified that they were merely nominal owners.

The lawsuit against Rufat Ismailov was initially expected to be heard by the court in his native Derbent, but the hearing was later transferred to the Dorogomilovsky District Court in Moscow, the publication reports.

The lawsuit against Ismailov continues a trend of attempts to seize the property of former officials.

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.

For example, 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 Isaev and his relatives be transferred to state revenue. The total value of the property exceeds 10 billion rubles.

In November 2025, the Prosecutor General's Office filed a lawsuit against Dagestani parliament member Murtuzali Murtuzaliev, his "common-law wife," and her family for the seizure of their property. According to the agency, from 2006 to 2023, Murtuzaliev earned 26 million rubles from his work as a member of parliament and at the state-owned enterprise "Dagestanavtodor," while his "common-law wife" earned 29.3 million rubles. At the same time, the deputy acquired property worth at least 376 million rubles—its current market value, according to the prosecutor's office, is estimated at 850 million rubles.

In September 2025, the Prosecutor General's Office filed a lawsuit demanding that land plots, residential and commercial real estate belonging to former Dagestan State Secretary Magomed-Sultan Magomedov and his relatives be transferred to the state. The agency estimated the value of 53 properties at 500 million rubles.

In August 2025, the Prosecutor General's Office filed a lawsuit to seize the property of former Makhachkala Mayor Said Amirov and his 18 relatives. The assets, worth over 2.1 billion rubles, included a movie theater, land plots for the construction of shopping centers, a hotel, residential buildings, and a maternity hospital.

Claims against officials created problems for bona fide owners

In connection with the lawsuits against Amirov and Magomedov, the property of people not connected to the former officials was seized. One of them faced the risk of property seizure, Makhachkala lawyer and activist Arsen Magomedov reported in December 2025.

In one case, a person acquired property after it had already been sold at public auction during the bankruptcy of one of Amirov's relatives. In another, due to living in a shared courtyard, a person became a co-owner of a house owned by one of the Secretary of State's relatives.

"Prosecutors are actively trying to transfer to the state all property acquired, in their opinion, in violation of anti-corruption legislation. Given the scale of the claims (more than a hundred properties), it is not surprising that this court sometimes includes individuals who are difficult to classify as belonging to these tukhums [families]," the lawyer stated.