Inherited property from a corrupt official in Russia? The country’s prosecutor general says the state can still seize any assets acquired through crime.

Seizing the assets of people implicated in corruption from their heirs is “fully consistent with the spirit of the law and with justice,” Russian Prosecutor General Alexander Gutsan said in a speech at the 11th meeting of the Interstate Council for Countering Corruption in Minsk.

According to Gutsan, prosecutors’ litigation to have corruption-linked assets turned over to the state has been “growing for a number of years now,” even as it has stirred debate over “the inviolability of property, the need to take statutes of limitations into account, and other issues.”

But property rights don’t extend to assets acquired through crime, Gutsan said.

“And that’s regardless of how long they’ve been held or whether they’ve been transferred to third parties. Even after a corrupt individual dies, those assets are subject to seizure from their heirs and forfeiture to the state,” the prosecutor general said.

The Prosecutor General’s Office regularly sues to have the state seize the assets of businesses that the Russian authorities are nationalizing, and courts just as regularly rule in its favor. One of the highest-profile cases in 2026 was the seizure of assets from Vadim Moshkovich, the owner of the agricultural conglomerate Rusagro. He was accused of illegally running a business while holding public office.