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Acquired advantage: The townhouse and 14 billion rubles may be withdrawn from the founder of Rusagro.
The first court hearing on the claim of the Prosecutor General's Office against Vadim Moshkovich, the founder of Rusagro Holding, will be held on May 5. Earlier, he was detained in a case of fraud on a particularly large scale. Shares worth 1.5 billion rubles, over 14 billion rubles in bank accounts, as well as real estate, including a townhouse in the residential complex "Three Poplars" with an area of 477 square meters, can be converted into state income. apartment and country house in the elite village of Tagankovo near Moscow. According to investigators, in order to hide these assets, Moshkovich registered them with relatives and his colleague, the ex-CEO of Rusagro.
What is required to be seized from Moshkovich
On May 5, the Khamovniki District Court of Moscow will begin considering the claim of the Prosecutor General's Office for the seizure of assets of the founder of Rusagro, Vadim Moshkovich, to state revenue, a source told Izvestia. The businessman was arrested in March 2025 on suspicion of major fraud and abuse of office. In addition, in May 2025, a case was opened against him for bribing an official on an especially large scale.
Vadim Moshkovich served as a senator from the Belgorod Region in 2006-2014, before that he was engaged in business. In the early noughties, he registered Rusagro, a company specializing in the production of agricultural products.
Now it is the largest agricultural holding in the country with annual revenue of about 400 billion rubles. Among others, he owns such brands as "Warm Traditions", "The Word of the Butcher", "Russian Sugar", "Chaikofsky", "Moscow Provencal", "The Dream of the hostess".
The company's assets are estimated at more than 550 billion rubles. This includes 823,000 hectares of land, 12 factories, nine sugar production sites and 20 pig breeding complexes in 15 regions. According to the source, Moshkovich's fortune may exceed $2 billion.
According to Izvestia's interlocutor, Moshkovich used "a political resource to patronize his structures and provide them with various preferences." According to the case file, as a senator, he unofficially continued to run Rusagro.
Vadim Moshkovich
"He performed his functions as a senator in conditions of constant conflict of interests: he used his official powers and political influence for illegal enrichment," said a source familiar with the essence of the Prosecutor General's claims. — And at the expense of corrupt incomes, he acquired production facilities, expensive real estate and created new business entities.
In addition, Moshkovich did not reflect in the declarations the ownership of Cyprus offshore companies Sethal Holdings Limited and Ros Agro PLC, through which capital could be withdrawn abroad.
The businessman and politician also patronized controlled companies in the Tambov region — Agrotechnologies, Rusagro-Tambov, Tambov Milkman, Tambov Cheese Maker and Tambov Bacon. From 2015 to 2019, these enterprises received more than 13.5 billion rubles in the form of budget subsidies and tax preferences.
Moshkovich's assets were distributed among his relatives and subordinates — his wife Natalia Bykovskaya, nephew Sergei Tribunsky and his wife Louise Ploshchanskaya, director of the holding Maxim Basov.
According to the claim of the Prosecutor General's Office, 469 million Rusagro shares worth about 1.5 billion rubles can be converted into state revenue. In addition, the supervisory authority demands that the luxury apartment in Khamovniki, which was registered to Natalia Bykovskaya, be withdrawn. It is 477.6 square meters. m. Judging by the address and square footage, this is one of the townhouses of the Three Poplars residential complex. As noted on the project's website, each townhouse has a separate entrance, a terrace and a small cozy patio, as well as an individual basement and garage. The ceiling height ranges from 3.2 to 3.9 m.
Currently, one of the townhouses with an area of 548 square meters is for sale in this complex. They want 1.1 billion rubles for it. In the same complex, Moshkovich also owned two non-residential premises of about 20.6 square meters each. These are presumably garages. The Prosecutor General's Office also demands to withdraw them.
In addition, the country house featured in the lawsuit was registered to Moshkovich's wife, the source noted. It is located in the elite village of Tagankovo in the Moscow region. The house has an area of more than 1.1 thousand square meters. It was built on a plot of 1.8 hectares. There are also two non-residential premises with a total area of about 600 sq. m.
The supervisory authority also asks Moshkovich to seize the assets of the Profit, Financial Resource enterprises and about 14 billion rubles, some of which are in the accounts of his relatives.
What kind of punishment are the defendants facing?
Registering corrupt property with relatives in order to hide assets is a common practice, Albert Khaleyan, partner of the Vector Prime Moscow Bar Association, told Izvestia.
"Many people register real estate and business shares with their wives, relatives or friends, believing that this will protect them from confiscation," he said. — The main difficulty for the investigation is to prove that the assets were bought with illegal income, and the relatives knew about their origin.
In 2025, the Constitutional Court made this task easier by allowing the seizure of property transferred as part of criminal schemes from relatives of corrupt officials, the expert said.
The main feature of such cases is the combination of criminal prosecution with anti—corruption lawsuits to recover assets for state revenue, Anton Pivovarov, a lawyer at the Moscow Sed Lex Bar Association, told Izvestia.
"This is no longer a point case, but a complex legal structure," he believes. — Such cases have become more common, especially in relation to large business structures, where the state seeks not only to punish, but also to redistribute assets deemed to have been obtained with violations.
Anton Pivovarov believes that if Moshkovich and Basov are proven guilty, they face up to 10 years in prison.
"The court's position will be influenced by the role of each person involved, the presence of mitigating or aggravating circumstances, as well as the behavior of the accused, including cooperation with the investigation or attempts to compensate for damages," the expert is convinced.
Albert Khaleyan believes that the punishment in corruption cases can range from 7 to 15 years in prison. According to him, courts have been increasingly seizing corrupt property from officials and businessmen lately.
So, on April 27, 2026, 18 billion rubles and securities were seized from former State Duma deputy Rizvangaji Isaev. According to investigators, he purchased land in the Krasnodar Territory at a discounted price, using his official position.
And on April 24, the family of the ex-chairman of the Krasnodar Regional Court, Alexander Chernov, had their property confiscated for almost a billion rubles. We are talking about real estate, money and 36 kg of gold. Earlier, the court turned the assets of Chernov and his affiliated companies worth over 13 billion rubles into state revenue, which included 87 real estate properties. A few days earlier, the Prosecutor General's Office filed a lawsuit for the confiscation of property worth 10 billion rubles from the former vice-governor of the Krasnodar Territory, Andrei Korobka.
In March, the court seized assets worth more than 10 billion rubles from Viktor Timofeev, an ex-deputy of the Krasnodar City Duma. The ex-official, according to the investigation, acquired them through contracts with controlled companies.
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