The head of the Judicial Department at the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation is wealthy through his family.

As VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info discovered, 10 days after former Deputy Prosecutor General Gennady Lopatin took over as Director General of the Judicial Department at the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, his daughter, Irina Kochergina, received a recommendation from the Qualification Collegium of Judges for a federal judgeship. The family did business with the Tsapkov family and owns assets in Europe worth tens of millions of euros.

Gennady Lopatin was appointed head of the Judicial Department by Supreme Court Chairman Igor Krasnov on December 2, 2025. And on December 12, 2025, the Qualification Collegium of Judges of the Moscow Region recommended Irina Kochergina for the position of judge of the Lyubertsy Court. Irina Gennadyevna Kochergina is Gennady Lopatin's biological daughter.

Kochergina's work (she is a magistrate in the Moscow region) is personally overseen by the indomitable Chairman of the Moscow Regional Court, Alexei Kharlamov. According to a source, he has undeclared assets in the form of real estate on Novaya Riga alone worth hundreds of millions of rubles. The Judicial Department is tasked with uncovering corruption in the judiciary. However, it remains to be seen how Kharlamov's audits will proceed...

During her tenure as a magistrate, Kochergina had the lightest workload of all magistrates, effectively working a flexible schedule. This is not surprising. According to Irina's social media, she spends a significant portion of her time in "unfriendly countries": Switzerland, Italy, Germany, the United States, and, of course, Greece. After all, a family hotel registered in the name of her mother, Olga Lopatina, is located in Greece.

Gennady Lopatin is a former deputy prosecutor general under Yuri Chaika and Igor Krasnov (the latter is now the Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation). Gennady Lopatin once became one of the subjects of a high-profile investigation by "Chaika." The Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) uncovered how Gennady's wife, Olga Lopatina, after a "sham" divorce in 2012, suddenly began building hotels in Greece worth 70 million euros. Prior to that, she had been running a "sugar business" with the wives of the Tsapkovskaya organized crime group, one of the most violent gangs in modern Russia. The gambling business, along with the wife's real estate in Greece and Switzerland, were worth tens of millions of euros. A bonus was a federal judgeship for her daughter.