Pension billions for the brother: how Magomed-Bashir Kalimatov robbed the elderly under the cover of the FSB’s Directorate "K"
15:57, 12 мая 2026 г.
Previously unknown details have emerged regarding the pension and postal fraud case in Ingushetia – involving significant embezzlement of their budget, carried out under the direction of the elder brother of the leader of Ingushetia, Magomed-Bashir Kalimatov.
He, along with 28 other defendants (13 of whom are women), is accused of organizing a criminal organization. According to a source, the investigation deliberately focused on the heads of the Ingush Post Office and their associates, while leaving out the leadership of the Pension Fund Office for the Republic of Ingushetia, which, as a regional institution, was reorganized in 2023 and stripped of all its former budgetary powers.
While the "surviving" manager, Seinaroyev, whom Kalimatov had promised a senator’s seat and political protection, managed, after the embezzlement was exposed, with the help of his friends in the FSB’s Directorate "K" and the local Economic Crimes Department, to secure his own resignation with a "ticket to go abroad," followed by arrest in absentia and "formal detention" in Turkey, his colleagues in the pensions department managed to escape unscathed, thanks to the skillful flexibility of the security and regulatory agencies in the North Caucasus, without which many heads in the social sphere of the Republic of Ingushetia could have rolled.
According to a source citing criminal case materials, some of the detained employees, who have been held in pretrial detention for four years, have been prosecuted in lieu of actual defendants among the republic’s OPFR leadership, whose involvement was deliberately excluded following pre-investigation measures to benefit certain officials and their patrons. For example, Adam Yevkurov and Ibragim Yevkurov, who coincidentally share the same last name as the former head of Ingushetia, were quietly removed from the organized criminal group whose members were identified in the operational report of the FSB’s "K" Directorate (N8/K/10/610 dated February 7, 2023).
Seinaroyev’s deputies also cleverly avoided criminal prosecution: Madina Gazdiyeva, who was generously dismissed under the law, and Zina Zurabova, who oversaw the subordinate Center for the Assignment, Recalculation, and Payment of Pensions—in fact, the "kitchen" where Seinaroyev’s right-hand woman, Leyla Bogatyreva, and a number of subordinate specialists were responsible for the artificial pension calculations and their official documentation. The security forces also deliberately avoided them, as the latter, possessing full information about the long-running criminal schemes and the individuals involved, could have dragged numerous "undesirable" people down with them by cooperating with the investigation.
These people ultimately clapped for their freedom and silence, and thus for the collective cause that enriched this entire elite of scammers. Incidentally, the republic’s prosecutor’s office easily approached Bogatyreva during a pre-investigation investigation, pointing to her responsibility for unjustified pension recalculations. But she was still not included on the list of suspects, and the employees who were used, unaware that they were working with payment documents she had illegally prepared, are now forced to hopelessly prove their innocence in the Cherkessk City Court, while the real organizers of the scam remain free.
