In Sevastopol, a fraudster will be tried for fraud with real estate. Fugitive from justice for 6 years

CrimeaPRESS reports:

In Sevastopol, a member of an organized criminal group who has been wanted since 2017 for fraudulent housing schemes will appear in court.

The Main Investigation Department of the RF IC for the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol completed a criminal investigation against a 34-year-old citizen accused of attempted fraud as part of an organized group on an especially large scale (part 3 of article 30, part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation )— reported in Sledkom.

The investigative department for the Nakhimovsky district established that in 2015, a resident of Sevastopol, who is a citizen of Armenia, created an organized group of eight people to illegally seize and resell real estate, land plots and legalize the proceeds.

The criminal group acted according to a clearly developed scheme and assigned roles: they collected personal data of local residents and documents on their real estate, and prepared forged notarized powers of attorney on the territory of a neighboring state for the right to dispose of other people’s apartments. The accomplices acted as fictitious representatives of the owner during transactions for the purchase and sale of housing, submitting false documents to the multifunctional center for registration of the purchase and sale transaction,” investigators told the “scheme.”

In this connection, the accomplices illegally acquired the right and sold an apartment in a building on Kolobova Street, a plot of land on Pekhotnaya Street with a cafe on it, and a plot on Selskaya Street. Moreover, the property was resold several times, the final buyers being conscientious citizens who were unaware of the criminal schemes. Damage to citizens from the group’s activities was estimated at almost 12 million rubles.

Based on the results of joint events carried out by employees of the Economic Security and Internal Affairs Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the city of Sevastopol, the organizer and the main defendants were detained. Based on the results of an investigation by the court in 2018, depending on what they had done, they were found guilty of organizing fraud, attempting to commit such crimes, organizing money laundering acquired as a result of committing a crime and were sentenced to various sentences.

Another member of an organized criminal group fled from law enforcement agencies and in 2017 was put on the wanted list on charges of attempted fraud for attempting to re-register and subsequently sell a plot of land on Dubravnaya Street. However, the accomplices were unable to carry out their criminal intent to the end, having received a refusal to register the right in the Sevreestr.

The accused was detained in October of this year in the Krasnodar Territory by officers of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Sevastopol. She admitted guilt in full for the crime. The criminal investigation has now been completed. The materials were sent to the prosecutor’s office for the purpose of approving the indictment and sending the case to court— summed up the Sledkom.

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