The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has initiated a move to recognize former State Duma deputy Magomed Gadzhiev and his family as an "extremist association," reports RBC.
The agency has filed a lawsuit with the Sovetsky District Court of Makhachkala, demanding a ban on the activities of the "group formed by members of the former parliamentarian's family."
An inspection conducted on the orders of Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov revealed that the group includes Gadzhiev's common-law wife Ninel Kolomiytseva, his son, and his sister.
According to the prosecution's position, the group's activities are based on "political and ideological views supporting foreign states hostile to Russia, including Ukraine and its armed formations." The association's activities, carried out abroad, are aimed "against the life and health of Russian citizens, and the security of society and the state."
The lawsuit alleges that after the start of the war in Ukraine, Gadzhiev left Russia and began providing financial support to "Ukrainian militarized groups," as well as expressed a willingness to "cooperate with Western intelligence services in exchange for obtaining foreign citizenship." According to the Prosecutor General's Office, for disclosing relevant information, he received no less than 45 million dollars from US government agencies.
The former deputy's son and sister, according to the investigation's version, manage his assets in Russia and "provide financial and material support for extremist activities." Furthermore, commercial real estate, elite housing, and land plots with a total value exceeding two billion rubles in Moscow, the Moscow region, and Dagestan are registered under Kolomiytseva's parents.
The Prosecutor General's Office has demanded the confiscation of this property for the state and the revocation of the license of the Gadzhiev-controlled company "Sulaknerud" for the extraction of sand and gravel mixture at the Chiryurtovskoye deposit in Dagestan. According to the agency's version, it is the profit from this activity that the former deputy illegally transfers abroad.