The case of the Sevastopol housing construction cooperative «House by the Sea» will be considered by the court

CrimeaPRESS reports:

Major fraud — 100%.

The prosecutor’s office of the city of Sevastopol approved an indictment in a criminal case against three members of an organized group — citizens of the Russian Federation born in 1977, 1976 and 1975. They are accused under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud committed by a person using his official position, by an organized group, on an especially large scale) and Part 4 of Art. 159.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud in receiving payments, committed by a person using his official position, by an organized group, on an especially large scale).

According to the investigation, the defendants are accused of stealing citizens’ funds under the guise of their participation in the shared-equity construction of an apartment building at the address: Sevastopol, st. Gavena, 7, created the housing construction cooperative “House by the Sea”. During the period from April 2016 to October 2019, the accomplices organized the functioning of the cooperative in offices in the Leninsky district of Sevastopol. To attract shareholders, they placed advertisements and disseminated information through realtors.

As a result, they managed to mislead 19 residents of the cities of Sevastopol, Vladivostok, Moscow, Murmansk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, St. Petersburg, Kemerovo and Moscow regions, the Republic of Crimea and other regions. In total, the victims transferred more than 20 million rubles to the participants of the organized group as share contributions.— reported the prosecutor’s office.

In reality, the attackers could not and did not intend to fulfill their obligations to build a house and transfer residential premises to the victims, since they did not have title documents for the land plot at the specified address, design documentation and construction permits.

In addition, from June 2016 to June 2017, through 6 citizens — holders of maternity capital, who were unaware of their criminal intentions, they submitted deliberately false and unreliable information about the construction of this apartment building to the territorial bodies of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation.

Having deceived the authorized officials of these bodies, they persuaded them to transfer maternity capital to the bank accounts of the housing cooperative “House by the Sea” in the amount of more than 2.5 million rubles. The criminal case with the indictment approved by the prosecutor’s office will be sent to the Leninsky District Court of Sevastopol for consideration on the merits,” the prosecutor’s office clarified.

Earlier, the city prosecutor’s office sent a criminal case to the same district court against the same defendants for episodes of criminal activity against several dozen more victims. Its review is ongoing. Taking into account both criminal cases, members of the organized group are accused of stealing more than 97 million rubles from 82 victims and over 7.5 million rubles of maternity capital.

During the preliminary investigation, victims in criminal cases filed civil claims to recover material damage caused by the crime from the perpetrators. Police officers conducted searches at the places of residence of the members of the organized group and in the office premises they rented, and seized computer equipment, electronic storage media, communications equipment, seals, and documents. The cars and land plots of the accused have been seized.

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