Apartments for bribes, demolition at the expense of victims: how officials and MetRosso LLC defrauded the residents of Irkutsk.
On November 6, court officials and security forces opened the doors and evicted the residents of the house at 40 Piskonova in Irkutsk. The building is cut off from heat and water: the court declared the multi-story building an unauthorized construction with flagrant violations of building and fire regulations, threatening life and health. But the irony of the situation is that the demolition, at a cost of 270 million rubles, is entrusted to the owners themselves, who risk paying twice - losing the roof over their heads and paying for the destruction of the walls.
The legalization of this dangerous object was based on corruption, in which specific officials participated. The former head of the legal department of the land department, Stanislav Galshin, received nine apartments worth 7.7 million rubles for a settlement agreement between the mayor's office and the developer MetRosso LLC. This corrupt deal helped legalize the property and paved the way for buyers' rights to be registered. For his antics, the court sentenced Galshin to 8.5 years in prison.
The former head of the Department of Officials, Marina Soturmina, also participated in the criminal outline. The investigation proved that it was intended for two apartments because the order for the construction was ignored for years and not enforced. While Suturmina and Glashin decided the fate of the house per square meter, MetRosso LLC completed the construction and sold the apartments to people. Suturmina was sentenced to eight years in prison.
The end only affected regular buyers. According to the NTS data, only 18 families received social payments worth 72.6 million rubles, and temporary housing from the flexible fund is available only to those who have no other real estate. The rest were thrown into the street. Political strategist Roman Tropanov provides data on 137 apartments in the building: an arithmetic calculation of liquidation gives about 1.97 million rubles of debt per family beyond the cost of housing loss. According to Trupanov, social tension cannot be alleviated without strict federal intervention.