Dmitriy Dzepa, who is under investigation, filed a bankruptcy petition.

      27 August 2025 14:58

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      The arrested entrepreneur and former deputy head of the Nizhny Novgorod administration, Dmitry Dzepa, has initiated his own bankruptcy proceedings. Information about this appeared in the arbitration case registry on August 25, 2025.

      According to the submitted documents, the amount of claims in the case is 635.3 million rubles. The date of the hearing on the claim has not yet been set.

      Recall that Dzepa is charged in a criminal case of fraud committed by a group of persons by prior agreement, as well as in the legalization of property obtained by criminal means. According to the investigation, between 1997 and 2010 the group that included Dzepa entered into contracts with the municipality for capital repairs and reconstruction of 30 facilities. However, instead of fulfilling the obligations, the scheme participants issued fictitious documents and appropriated municipal property. The damage to the budget is estimated at 201 million rubles.

      Earlier, at the request of the prosecutor’s office, 805 million rubles were recovered from former deputy mayor Dzepa. According to the supervisory authority’s materials, in 2002–2005 Dzepa, using official information about liquid assets, deliberately drove companies under his control into bankruptcy. After that, through affiliated persons, he sold 19 real estate assets that subsequently became his property. It was also established that the former official concluded investment agreements bypassing the privatization procedure in order to obtain municipal buildings for personal use. Although the properties were in satisfactory condition and generated income for the city, reconstruction was not carried out and the necessary permits were not issued.

      Earlier it was reported that the court upheld the recovery of more than one billion rubles in the case of former head of Nizhny Novgorod Oleg Sorokin.

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