Kaitov Magomed Kadyevich

Biography

2025: Anti-corruption lawsuit of the Prosecutor General's Office

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.

According to the case file, in 2006-2011, Kaitov, as head of IDGC, turned 4.26 billion rubles in his favor, including through fictitious contracts and the illegal use of federal funds. He legalized the money received by acquiring a number of energy companies in the Stavropol Territory - Stavropolenergosbyt, Stavropol City Electric Networks, Gorelektroset and Kislovodskaya Grid Company. On their basis, Kaitov is said to have formed a personal holding and monopolized the region's power grid system.

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In addition, the investigation established that the Kaitov holding included the Krasnodar PKI LLC and the Moscow Rusmarket LLC. Lysenko, the son of the chairman of the arbitration court of the Stavropol Territory, was appointed head of the legal department of PKI, and then took the post of executive director of this company. The owner of Rusmarket LLC until September 2021 was Kaitov's daughter, and then his confidant Zharkov. These organizations, reportedly, from 2019 to 2024, under the guise of construction and installation work and the purchase of equipment, 337.1 million rubles were withdrawn into shadow circulation. The funds were legalized through the construction of "multifunctional network towers" on illegally seized municipal lands. This telecom infrastructure was then leased to leading mobile operators - MTS, Bilain, Tele2, MegaFon.

As part of the lawsuit, the Prosecutor General's Office demands to turn the defendant's companies into the country's income, as well as to recover a total of 337 million rubles from Kaitov, Lysenko and Zharkov.^[1]

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