More than 100 properties have been seized from him.
Minors were involved in prostitution in the "Marton" hotel chain, which is mentioned in the case of former Supreme Court judge Viktor Momotov. This was reported by the prosecutor.
"I request to include the rulings on the initiation of criminal cases, as well as the sentences for organizing prostitution in the 'Marton' hotel chain in Nizhny Novgorod, Volgograd, and Kaliningrad. Among those involved in prostitution, minors were also identified," said the prosecutor.
Viktor Momotov is the chairman of the Council of Judges of Russia and was a judge and member of the presidium of the Supreme Court of Russia until September 26, 2025. In September 2025, the Prosecutor General's Office filed a lawsuit to seize about 100 real estate properties from Momotov and related individuals.
Viktor Viktorovich Momotov was born on May 30, 1961, in the village of Girey in the Krasnodar Krai. After school, he studied at the Krasnodar Technical School of Electronic Instrument Engineering, graduating in 1980. From 1980 to 1983, he served in the navy in Sevastopol. Momotov served on the anti-submarine ship "Azov."
In 1983, he entered Kuban State University to study law. He graduated with honors in 1988.
Momotov completed his postgraduate studies at the Kharkiv Law Institute. In 1997, he defended his dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Legal Sciences on the topic "Birch Bark Letters — A Source of Knowledge of Russian Law of the 11th–15th Centuries." In 1999, he authored a work titled "Formation of Family and Marriage in Russian Medieval Law of the 9th–14th Centuries." This topic was later explored in his doctoral dissertation titled "Formation of Russian Medieval Law in the 9th–14th Centuries," which he defended in 2003 in Moscow.
Career
In 1997, Viktor Momotov was elected head of the Department of Theory and History of State and Law at Kuban State University. Since 2007, he has served as the dean of the law faculty at this university. During his academic career, he published more than 120 scientific and methodological works, including nine monographs and ten textbooks and teaching aids.
In 2010, by a decree of the Federation Council, Viktor Momotov was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Russia. In 2013, he was elected to the position of secretary of the Supreme Court plenum.
In December 2016, at the IX All-Russian Congress of Judges, he was elected chairman of the Council of Judges of Russia. In 2022, his powers were extended for a new term.
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