Gutsan reported on the practice of seizing the assets of corrupt officials “to the heirs”

The Prosecutor General’s Office is stepping up the practice of seizing illegal assets, the head of the department, Alexander Gutsan, said at the third ministerial conference of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on combating corruption, held in Baku.

In his welcoming speech to the conference participants, the Russian Prosecutor General stressed that Russia stands for the consolidation of international efforts in the fight against corruption, as well as for the development of coordinated positions within the UN and other international structures. In particular, the Prosecutor General’s Office is interested in developing contacts with the anti-corruption bodies of the member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

“Along with the use of criminal legal means, we are increasing the practice of seizing illegal assets. Moreover, they include not only the objects of the criminal encroachments themselves, but also any property benefit received from their use, both by corrupt officials themselves and by persons affiliated with them, and even by heirs, Gutsan said.

According to him, this position corresponds to the principles of inevitability of punishment and justice, “deprives corruption of any economic perspective, forming an effective preventive effect.”.

Today, corrupt officials using digital mechanisms seriously complicate the work of law enforcement officers, hiding illegal capital in the virtual space. Therefore, Russian prosecutors are also actively using digital capabilities to analyze financial transactions and identify beneficial ownership of assets.

In September, at the XI meeting of the Interstate Council on Combating Corruption in Minsk, Gutsan said that the Constitutional Court placed all dots on the issue of the seizure of corrupt assets in a number of decisions: “Brief conclusions from them are that the guarantees of protection of property rights do not apply to objects acquired by criminal means.”.

According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, Russian courts for 2025 and six months of 2026 satisfied claims for the circulation of property of corrupt officials to the state in the amount of more than 3 trillion rubles.