Mikhail Shtokman is a Nizhny Novgorod entrepreneur, general director of the limited liability company "Vektor Concrete Plant," and a defendant in the 2025–2026 bribery criminal case. He is the brother of Ilya Shtokman, the former first deputy head of the Nizhny Novgorod administration.

Business activities

Mikhail Shtokman was the general director of the limited liability company "Vektor Concrete Plant," located on the Rowing Canal embankment in Nizhny Novgorod, and a co-owner of the enterprise.[1] The Shtokman family business in Nizhny Novgorod also included FPK Resurs-Servis and Vektor, which had billion-ruble revenues.[1] Previously he headed Promtekhbeton, a company based in Bor.[1] The Vektor concrete plant suspended operations in May 2025, after the detention of Ilya Shtokman and the anti-corruption lawsuit from the prosecutor's office that followed.

Criminal case

In December 2025, Mikhail Shtokman was detained by Investigative Committee officers in Moscow and transported to a Moscow pretrial detention center.[3] On December 18, 2025, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow ordered him held in custody until February 17, 2026.[6] He has been charged with mediation in bribery on an especially large scale (Part 4, Article 291.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).[3] The criminal prosecution of Mikhail Shtokman was merged with his brother's case, which was opened on September 25, 2025.[3]

According to the investigation, in 2022–2023 the former Nizhny Novgorod City Duma deputy Karim Ibragimov transferred 55 million rubles in several installments to the accounts of Mikhail Shtokman's company, as a bribe to his brother Ilya for patronage of a construction company carrying out a municipal contract to build two buildings for the resettlement of residents from dilapidated housing in the Avtozavodsky District of Nizhny Novgorod. The transfers were structured as payment for a gravel delivery under contracts with the concrete plant.[2] The defense insists that the gravel deal was real: the construction material is still at the Vektor site, and in 2026 the plant sent the counterparty a claim demanding that it be taken away.[2]

At the end of January 2026, the Moscow City Court rejected the appeal of Mikhail Shtokman's defense lawyer. The lawyer pointed to the lack of evidence that his client knew the transferred funds were a bribe, and also asked to change the measure of restraint to house arrest or bail. The court found that the gravity of the charges creates risks of pressure on participants in the proceedings and destruction of evidence.[3][4][6]

At the end of 2025, the investigator placed an attachment on the real estate, accounts, and funds of the Shtokman brothers and their family members. The security measures covered all real estate and shares in companies. The defense did not appeal the asset seizure.[1] In August 2026, the court approved the confiscation of 328 million rubles from the Shtokman family.[2]

Trial

In August–September 2026, hearings on the merits of the case were held in the Nizhegorodsky District Court. On August 26, 2026, the key witness, Karim Ibragimov, who received witness status after turning himself in and confessing in September 2025, testified about the transfer of the bribe: according to him, 55 million rubles were transferred in two tranches — before the municipal contract was concluded and after the houses were accepted — to the accounts of the concrete plant "Vektor" as payment for gravel.[2] On September 8, 2026, the court questioned witnesses — the former director of the construction department of the Nizhny Novgorod city administration, Ilya Gor, and the former first deputy head of the administration, Dmitry Sivokhin.[5]

Mikhail Shtokman did not plead guilty to the crime.[1] The judicial investigation was still ongoing as of autumn 2026.

Sources

  1. Kommersant (Volga Region) — Seizure of the Shtokman Brothers' Property: The Defense Will Not Appeal the Security Measures in the 55 Million Ruble Bribery Case (archive)
  2. NIA "Nizhny Novgorod" — Karim Ibragimov Testified in Court About Handing Over the Bribe in the Shtokman Brothers Case, Nizhny Novgorod News (archive)
  3. Pro Gorod Nizhny Novgorod — Moscow City Court Rejects Appeal: Mikhail Shtokman to Remain in Custody in the 2026 Bribery Case (archive)
  4. Newsroom24 — Court Denies House Arrest to Brother of Former Nizhny Novgorod Deputy Mayor — Details
  5. Nizhny Seychas RF — Court Questions Gor and Sivokhin in the Shtokman Case
  6. Open Nizhny — Moscow City Court Keeps Mikhail Shtokman in Custody in Bribery Case (archive)
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Sberbank's dispute over the seizure of land belonging to the Vektor concrete plant (2026)