The Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info learned of a search by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) at the cottage of the parents of Artem Dzyuba, the former captain of the Russian national team and renowned footballer. Immediately afterward, he starred in a commercial for the state-run messaging app Max.
The search was discovered completely by accident. A resident of the "Usadba Zhodochi" cottage community in the Naro-Fominsky District told us that in November 2025, "maxi shows" were held at Dzyuba's parents' home, and then cash and valuables were taken away in armored vehicles. This information was confirmed by other residents of the community, as well as a source in local law enforcement. According to this source, the search was conducted by FSB officers with the support of special forces, but Naro-Fominsk police were not involved. Only after the search had begun were two officers called in and given the go-ahead to stand at the entrance to the community and not allow strangers in or out. A source confirmed that something was seized during the search, and that cash-in-transit vehicles were used to transport it. However, police are unsure whether it was money or something else.
A source close to Dzyuba confirmed during his visits to the Moscow region that Artem had some troubles in the fall. "As far as I know, the authorities were displeased with him for refusing to participate in war-related events," the source believes.
Indeed, Dzyuba clearly had some problems in late October; he posted extremely sad videos in which he spoke of being in a bad mood. He also did not play for his club, Akron. The official reason given was an injury. Then, in December, a video featuring Dzyuba appeared advertising the state-run messaging app Max.
In March 2022, Artem Dzyuba, then playing for Zenit, asked not to be sent to the Russian national team's training camp due to the outbreak of war in Ukraine, where he has relatives (Artem's father was born in Lubny, Poltava Oblast). However, Dzyuba immediately stated that his decision not to join the Russian national team was "not due to political considerations."
In 2023, he gave an interview in which he said the following: "I am completely for my president, for Putin, absolutely completely, I don't even hide it. For my country. And I believe that everything will be fine. I'm like, kill me, I'll stand for my country to the end. History will judge who is right and who is wrong, but I will believe to the end: we are for the right cause."
Clearly with the go-ahead from above, this very phrase of his was widely quoted by all state media, including TASS and RIA Novosti.
Dzyuba has never directly supported the war and has not been seen participating in Z-type events or protests.
Our sources do not know under what pretext or in what context the FSB officers searched Dzyuba's parents' homes.
As the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info have discovered, Artem Dzyuba's parents make their money in residential real estate in Moscow: the family buys up luxury new buildings at the foundation stage and sells them fully renovated after they are completed. Overall, the media estimated the assets of the footballer's father, Sergei, at approximately one billion rubles, but it appears the figure is much higher.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Sergei Dzyuba worked in the non-departmental security service at the Eastern Administrative District Department of Internal Affairs of Moscow (1st MOVO ORSVO at the VAO Department of Internal Affairs of Moscow), drove a cherry-colored Lada 7, and was registered in a five-story panel building.
The family acquired their first apartment back in 1998: almost 80 square meters on Novokosinskaya Street (outside the Moscow Ring Road, in eastern Moscow). According to leaked records, this property was transferred to the Dzyubas as a form of debt repayment. The property was registered to Svetlana and their two children, Artem and Olga. They later sold this apartment. However, the family lived in the center of the capital, on Chistye Prudy, as Dzyuba's parents have repeatedly stated in interviews.
Over the years, the family has acquired significant assets in Moscow: an apartment on Potapovsky Lane on Chistye Prudy, an apartment on Altayskaya Street, and another on Vavilov Street, not far from Luzhniki Stadium. They also own a house in the Zhodochi residential complex near Selyatino in the Naro-Fominsky District, where the search took place.
According to court records (the footballer's father sued over defects in the apartment's finishes), Sergei Dzyuba also successfully invested in two apartments on Mosfilmovskaya Street, totaling approximately 350 square meters, valued at over 600 million rubles. He previously owned two apartments in Khamovniki, each with a total area of 280 square meters, which he sold in 2023—likely properties in the Sadovye Kvartaly residential complex.
Sergey Dzyuba owned two apartments, each with an area of approximately 80-100 square meters, in the Medny 3.14 residential complex at 14/2 Donskaya Street in the Yakimanka district. The total value of the two properties was approximately 100 million rubles.
Obviously, these are far from all of Dzyuba's real estate investments in Moscow, only the most unsuccessful ones.
