On September 26, Reuters reported on a multi-billion dollar lawsuit filed by Russian tycoon Ziyavudin Magomedov against Rosatom and other companies. The businessman, who is serving a 19-year sentence for creating a criminal group and embezzlement, believes that he is the victim of a state-sanctioned conspiracy.

The lawsuit was filed in the High Court of London on July 20, but the press only learned about it in the fall. The defendants are the state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom, the oil pipeline operator Transneft, the private investment company TPG, and the UAE-based port operator DP World. The plaintiff is demanding $13.8 billion from them for his shares in assets that were confiscated during the illegal criminal prosecution. Magomedov's lawyer Tim Lord told Bloomberg that the persecution of the businessman in Russia is "political."

Magomedov claims that his arrest in 2018 on charges of embezzlement was part of a scheme to expropriate his capital in the interests of Rosatom and Transneft. In his opinion, the Kremlin wanted to transfer the Fesco transport group, which manages ports, including the port in Vladivostok, under the control of Rosatom. He estimates his stake in Fesco at $8.8 billion. A TPG representative said that Magomedov's claims are "completely unfounded." The second part of the lawsuit concerns the Magomedov brothers' stake in the Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port (NCSP). Magomed and Ziyavudin Magomedov acquired their stake in NCSP through a joint venture with Transneft and were negotiating the sale of their shares for $1.3 billion. However, after his arrest, according to Magomedov, he received an offer to sell his shares for half price, and in exchange, Transneft President Nikolai Tokarev would talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin and secure his release.

A native of Dagestan, 55-year-old Ziyavudin Magomedov, owner of the Summa Group, was found guilty in December last year of creating an organized criminal group and embezzling 11 billion rubles and sentenced to 19 years in a maximum security prison. His brother, a former senator from Smolensk and co-owner of Summa, received 18 years. The numerous charges against the businessmen can be divided into two groups: embezzlement of budget funds during construction (in particular, the Arena Baltika stadium and Khrabrovo Airport in Kaliningrad) and violent actions, including attacks and raider takeovers. The brothers did not admit guilt. The court confiscated all their property and stripped them of their state awards.

In May 2022, the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, ordered the Magomedovs to pay $750 million in favor of the state. The brothers received this money from the sale of shares in the Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port to Transneft. According to the Prosecutor General's Office, the proceeds from the sale were of criminal origin. In November of the same year, the Moscow Arbitration Court granted the DVMP's claim and seized 49.99% of the company's shares owned by the Magomedovs.

Before his arrest, Ziyavudin Magomedov's fortune was estimated at $1.4 billion, and he was ranked 63rd on the Forbes list. The businessman's main asset was the Summa Group, a holding company uniting companies involved in port logistics, engineering, construction, telecommunications, and oil and gas sectors. Magomedov owned shares in the Fesco transport group, Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port, the Vladivostok Port Automobile Terminal, Petrovsk Port, United Grain Company JSC, and Yakutgazprom. Ziyavudin Magomedov was a member of the board of trustees of the Bolshoi Theater, supported athlete Khabib Nurmagomedov, and founded the Peri charity foundation, which was involved in cultural and educational programs. In particular, in Dagestan, the foundation opened the Peter I Museum in Derbent, digitized monuments in the village of Kala-Koreysh, and founded a business incubator in Makhachkala. The Magomedovs' success was associated with their friendship with businessmen and officials from Dmitry Medvedev's entourage. When he was president of Russia, the Magomedovs received large government contracts. There are different versions of the true reasons for the criminal prosecution. Among them is a conflict with the management of the state company Transneft over a share in the Novorossiysk port. The Dozhd TV channel suggested that the case could have been caused by the revenge of billionaire Suleiman Kerimov: the brothers allegedly leaked dirt on him to the French secret services. Novaya Gazeta linked the criminal prosecution with the businessmen's attempt to enter politics in Dagestan without the Kremlin's consent.