IDGC of the North Caucasus

Open Joint Stock Company<Межрегиональная распределительная сетевая компания Северного Кавказа> ensures the transmission of electricity through its networks, as well as the purchase of electric energy in the wholesale market (NOREM) and its supply to the retail market in Dagestan, Ingushetia, North Ossetia-Alania, Stavropol Territory, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, Kalmykia and the Chechen Republic. In addition, the company is the sole executive body of seven companies - OJSC, <Каббалкэнерго>OJSC, <Карачаево-Черкесскэнерго>OJSC, OJSC<Калмэнергосбыт>, <Севкавказэнерго>OJSC, OJSC and <Ингушэнерго>OJSC (<Дагестанская энергосбытовая компания><Нурэнерго>Chechen Republic).

History

2025: The Prosecutor General's Office revealed in the North Caucasus a scheme for shadow cashing out money through leasing telecom infrastructure to MTS, Bilain, T2 and MegaFon

On September 30, 2025, it became known that the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation filed an anti-corruption lawsuit against the former head of OJSC Interregional Network Company of the North Caucasus (IDGC) Magomed Kaitov, his partner Daniil Lysenko and Andrei Zharkov. Read more here

2020: Damage of 2 million rubles from underground miners

On August 12, 2020, Rosseti North Caucasus announced the identification of several farms illegally connected to power grids for the extraction of cryptocurrencies in Dagestan. Losses from illegal activities of miners are estimated at almost 2 million rubles.

In the village of Kafyr-Kumukh, Buinaksky district, an attacker miner was discovered, which, according to Rosseti's calculations, caused damage to the energy company in the amount of over 1.7 million rubles. The fact of theft was revealed by a working group of specialists of the Security Department for the Republic of Dagestan and the Dagenergo branch together with employees of the Main Directorate MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS Russia for the North Caucasus Federal District during raid measures in July 2020 to prevent and suppress the facts of theft of the energy resource.

In Dagestan, underground miners stole electricity from Rosseti by almost 2 million rubles

Representatives of the working group clarified that a metal magnet was attached to the offender's accounting device, which suspended the operation of the meter and changed the actual volumes of electricity consumed downward. On the fact of the revealed violation, power engineers drew up an act on unaccounted electricity consumption. The information was transferred to law enforcement agencies. The violator may face both administrative and criminal liability.

Another fact of theft of electricity was discovered in July 2020 in the capital of the Republic of Dagestan. A resident of Makhachkala organized the work of a mining farm in the garage of his own house. By August 12, 2020, the attacker fully compensated for the damage, which amounted to about 247 thousand rubles.

The press service of Rosseti stressed that Dagestan is an "anti-leader" among the regions of the Russian Federation in terms of the number of illegal Power detected,  it was estimated that the total economic damage due to mining theft in the macro-region since May last year has exceeded 200 million rubles, the company said. Rosseti^[1]

Information Technology in Rosseti

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