The prosecutor's office has demanded the seizure of the property of the former head of the Rostov-on-Don Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The Rostov Region Prosecutor's Office filed a lawsuit against the former head of the Rostov-on-Don Ministry of Internal Affairs, Sergei Shpak, who is accused of bribery and fraud, and his subordinate, for the transfer of 15 million rubles to the state.
As reported by the "Caucasian Knot", in early May, investigators denied former head of the Rostov-on-Don Department of Internal Affairs Sergei Shpak a contract with the Ministry of Defense and denied him transfer to the SVO zone.
In early April, the Pervomaisky District Court of Rostov-on-Don extended by six months the pretrial detention of former head of the Rostov-on-Don Department of Internal Affairs Sergei Shpak, accused of bribery, fraud, and illegal circulation of payment instruments. During the court hearing, he filed a motion to be sent to the SVO zone. He did not admit his guilt.
The acting prosecutor of the Rostov region, acting in the interests of the state, is considering a claim against Sergei Shpak and Sergei Egorkin for the confiscation of funds for the benefit of the budget, RBC reports.
According to the claim, the representative of the supervisory agency is requesting that 15 million rubles be jointly and severally paid to the state by Shpak and Egorkin. It is clarified that the legality of their possession of the funds has not been confirmed. The hearing of the claim is scheduled for June 23, 2026.
Earlier, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don ordered the seizure of the property of Sergei Egorkin, a former detective with the city police department and a subordinate of Shpak, for the benefit of the state. The total value of the confiscated assets exceeded 120 million rubles.
As a reminder, according to investigators, Shpak, while serving as the head of the police department of the Rostov-on-Don Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2017, received a bribe in the form of travel packages worth over 260,000 rubles for patronage of the Pokrovsky concern. Then, from 2019 to 2023, as deputy head of the department and then head, Shpak and his subordinates stole nearly 300,000 rubles, which were accrued to the operative as wages for days he was actually absent from work, according to the regional Investigative Committee's Investigative Directorate. The "Caucasian Knot" also reported that the Pokrovsky concern, having lost its security agency patrons, was nationalized, but the state is only a temporary asset holder. Meanwhile, the influence of people somehow connected to the Tsapkov gang, whose lands included Pokrovsky, on agribusiness in southern Russia has diminished, but not completely disappeared.