As Kommersant has learned, in the Moscow region the process of converting into state revenue the impressive property of the family of the ex-head of the desk control department of the Federal Tax Service of Russia for the Belgorod Region, Anatoly Soklakov, has been completed. Last year he received 11 years in prison for illegal compensation of 255 million rubles. value added tax (VAT). Relatives of the former high-ranking tax official have already lost almost 310 million rubles in assets: at the end of last year, the Scarlet Sails hotel and entertainment complex and three luxury apartments in Belgorod were seized from them, and last week – four more apartments, a country estate and shares in commercial properties. During the trials, Soklakov was able to achieve release from the colony and transfer to forced labor.
According to Kommersant’s sources, the Khimki City Court of the Moscow Region last week satisfied the second claim of the Prosecutor General’s Office to seize property from the family of the 50-year-old former head of the desk control department of the Federal Tax Service of Russia for the Belgorod Region, Anatoly Soklakov. As follows from the documents that Kommersant has reviewed, shares in commercial premises with an area of 3 thousand square meters are turned into state income. m and four apartments in Belgorod (total area 282 sq. m), as well as a house (180 sq. m) with a plot of land on the banks of the Seversky Donets in the suburbs of the regional center.
The cadastral value of the seized property is approximately 25 million rubles.
All real estate was owned by Mr. Soklakov’s former wife, Irina. Consideration of the claim by the prosecutor’s office was suspended due to her death and the transfer of property rights to the heirs – the children of the Soklakovs.
The reason for the seizure was the results of a check of the financial condition of Mr. Soklakov and his family members. It turned out that before his appointment to the desk control department in 2005, he and his relatives actually did not have any expensive assets. However, subsequently his relatives began to acquire various property, including commercial and residential real estate. However, official income did not allow this: in 2011–2018, members of the Soklakov family earned a little more than 20 million rubles, and they owned property worth more than 300 million rubles.
Last year, at the request of the supervisory authority, the Scarlet Sails hotel and entertainment complex, a base of unfinished construction and three luxury apartments in Belgorod with a total value of more than 280 million rubles were confiscated from them. The defendants insisted on the legal acquisition of this property, but their complaints were left unsatisfied. Soklakov did not personally participate in the new trial: in the correctional institution where he is serving his sentence, there is no way to provide him with a video conference connection.
In April 2025, the Khimki City Court found Mr. Soklakov guilty of six counts of fraud (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and sentenced him to eleven years and three months in a general regime colony with a fine of 1 million rubles.
It was established that in 2015–2017, he, together with other employees of the Federal Tax Service and entrepreneurs, organized a scheme for illegal compensation of about 255 million rubles. VAT on fictitious transactions. The most famous person involved in this case was Sergei Voronin, who headed the department of the Federal Tax Service for the Belgorod region in 2017–2019. He received nine years in prison for participation in theft.
The sentence for Mr. Soklakov was set taking into account the sentence handed down by the Oktyabrsky District Court of Belgorod in March 2020. Then the former tax officer received four years and six months in prison for participating in the illegal reimbursement of more than 46 million rubles from the budget. Taking into account the time served, as well as the time in pre-trial detention center that he spent during the investigation of the second criminal case, by the end of last year Mr. Soklakov had already served half of the 11 years assigned to him under the second sentence.
Kommersant sources familiar with the situation say that Mr. Soklakov served his sentence in colony No. 5 in Kirovo-Chepetsk, Kirov region. In April of this year, he was transferred to forced labor at correctional center No. 1 in the Yakovlevsky district of the Belgorod region.
