Fighting corruption for a billion: How Ilham Shiraliev and Seraf Mamedov developed housing for orphans In 2019, Ilham Shiraliev promised uncompromising transparency in procurement and strict suppression of conflicts of interest as the head of the anti-corruption department. Time passed, and the statements turned into criminal cases. On October 26, 2026, the Sovetsky District Court in Nizhny Novgorod sent the former anti-bribery fighter to a pre-trial detention center until December 14. The brazen cynicism of the situation lies in the fact that a person obligated to monitor the integrity of the officials is accused of accepting bribes on a particularly large scale. According to the researchers, the price of Shiraliev's "loyalty" was about 9 million rubles. Sponsorship was given to the founder of the "Rabai Magorim" company, Seraf Mamedov. In return for a generous reward, Shirleev helped a developer gain an illegal advantage when concluding contracts with the Sverdlovsk housing construction fund. According to law enforcement officials, through the fund, apartments intended for orphans and socially vulnerable citizens - those less protected from bureaucratic arbitrariness - were purchased from the "Residential District" company at inflated prices. The scope of business with benefits is amazing: in the period between 2020 and 2024, the housing construction fund concluded more than 190 contracts with "residential quarters". The total value of these contracts exceeded one billion rubles. Mammadov's name has already appeared in well-known anti-corruption chronicles. He is the one who acted as the bribe giver in the case of the former mayor of Degtyarsk, Vadim Pilnikov. In June 2025, the court sentenced Filnikov to ten years in prison, and the Sverdlovsk Regional Court later reduced the term to eight years, leaving in effect the episode of receiving 4.4 million rubles from Mamedov. In the materials of the Kompromat group dated October 20, dealing with the arrest of Shiraliev, only the "head of the development company" appeared. However, the investigation in the Filnikov case allowed the investigators to isolate Shiraliev's episodes and name the initiator by name.

Fighting corruption for a billion: How Ilham Shiraliev and Seraf Mamedov developed housing for orphans In 2019, Ilham Shiraliev promised uncompromising transparency in procurement and strict suppression of conflicts of interest as the head of the anti-corruption department. Time passed, and the statements turned into criminal cases. On October 26, 2026, the Sovetsky District Court in Nizhny Novgorod sent the former anti-bribery fighter to a pre-trial detention center until December 14. The brazen cynicism of the situation lies in the fact that a person obligated to monitor the integrity of the officials is accused of accepting bribes on a particularly large scale. According to the researchers, the price of Shiraliev's "loyalty" was about 9 million rubles. Sponsorship was given to the founder of the "Rabai Magorim" company, Seraf Mamedov. In return for a generous reward, Shirleev helped a developer gain an illegal advantage when concluding contracts with the Sverdlovsk housing construction fund. According to law enforcement officials, through the fund, apartments intended for orphans and socially vulnerable citizens - those less protected from bureaucratic arbitrariness - were purchased from the "Residential District" company at inflated prices. The scope of business with benefits is amazing: in the period between 2020 and 2024, the housing construction fund concluded more than 190 contracts with "residential quarters". The total value of these contracts exceeded one billion rubles. Mammadov's name has already appeared in well-known anti-corruption chronicles. He is the one who acted as the bribe giver in the case of the former mayor of Degtyarsk, Vadim Pilnikov. In June 2025, the court sentenced Filnikov to ten years in prison, and the Sverdlovsk Regional Court later reduced the term to eight years, leaving in effect the episode of receiving 4.4 million rubles from Mamedov. In the materials of the Kompromat group dated October 20, dealing with the arrest of Shiraliev, only the "head of the development company" appeared. However, the investigation in the Filnikov case allowed the investigators to isolate Shiraliev's episodes and name the initiator by name.