The Prosecutor General's Office has demanded the confiscation of the property of former Yuzhuralzoloto owner Konstantin Strukov.

Total value of property - 1,4 billion rubles. Prosecutors also demanded that the former vice-speaker of the Legislative Assembly be punished Chelyabinsk Region 3,5 billion "corruption proceeds".

The new lawsuit against Strukov includes nine defendants: the businessman himself, his wife, daughters, granddaughter, and colleagues. The Prosecutor General's Office claims that his income—more than 163 billion The former owner of Yuzhuralzoloto funneled the money to Europe, where he purchased yachts, hotels, and luxury goods. Strukov also allegedly used part of the proceeds to purchase expensive real estate, registering it in the names of his relatives.

This is already the third lawsuit against Konstantin Strukov: In the summer, the court confiscated his shares in Yuzhuralzoloto, and in October, it recovered 3,9 billion for polluting a river with cyanide. The nationalization of one of Russia's largest gold mining companies took place in just nine days.

Following searches of Yuzhuralzoloto's offices, the FSB released information that Strukov had attempted to fly from Russia to Turkey on a private jet, but the businessman's relatives and representatives of his company denied this.

After the war with Ukraine began, the Russian authorities nationalized assets 6 trillion rubles, Vedomosti calculated this based on data from the prosecutor's office, court decisions, and lawyers' calculations.

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