Moscow Court Seizes Ex-Senator Vadim Moshkovich’s 49% Stake in Ros Agro After Finding Conflict-of-Interest Violations

A Moscow court ordered the seizure of Vadim Moshkovich’s family’s 49 per cent stake in Ros Agro last month. Prosecutors accused the founder of violating a ban on combining public service with business activities while serving in Russia’s upper chamber of parliament from 2006 to 2014 and of abusing his political position for illegal enrichment.

Moshkovich founded Ros Agro after earlier ventures distributing vodka and flipping apartments.

His agricultural assets were transferred to the management of an affiliate of state-owned Russian Agriculture Bank, also known as Rosselkhozbank, days after the court decision, according to the companies register. 1 billion) of assets in anti-corruption cases in 2025, according to Moscow-based law firm Nektorov, Saveliev & Partners.

That total was about eight times higher than in 2024 and represented about a third of all asset confiscations carried out by the state last year.

Asset seizures citing corruption intensified after a 2024 Russian Constitutional Court decision that removed the 10-year statute of limitations for property of officials designated as corrupt. Moshkovich attended a meeting with President Vladimir Putin and billionaires on February 24, 2022, hours after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began. Most attendees at that meeting were later sanctioned.

Moshkovich was arrested in March 2025 in connection with a separate fraud case and has remained in custody since. The corruption case against him was brought in 2025, and he rejected the accusations. Some of his connections asked Putin to intervene, but the Russian leader declined, according to a person familiar with the situation.

Konstantin Strukov surrendered an empire spanning gold mining to agriculture after anti-corruption claims in 2025. Strukov is a member of the ruling United Russia party and served in the parliament of Chelyabinsk region for more than two decades. ” In May the State Duma passed a bill setting a 10-year statute of limitations for the review of privatisation cases.

The time cap does not apply to anti-corruption lawsuits against current and former officials. In May the state twice failed to sell about a 67 per cent stake in Yuzhuralzoloto and affiliated companies formerly owned by Strukov. A third auction attempt is scheduled for June 2026.

Suleiman Kerimov offered to donate 100 billion roubles to the budget during a closed-door meeting between Putin and Russian business leaders in March, according to people familiar with the matter. Moscow’s Domodedovo airport was sold at roughly half the initial asking price earlier in 2026 after an earlier auction failed.

Russia ranked 157th out of 182 countries on Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index last year.

“Anti-corruption lawsuits are becoming not merely a tool for combating corruption, but a driving force behind the redistribution of assets in favour of the state,” said Ilia Shumanov, managing partner at TriTrace Investigations.