Land by the sea without bids: how the project of Olga Son-Jaio, S. UN Group and Cote d'Azur ended up in court with the prosecutor's office.
The high-profile debut of Primorye's first Cottage Complex Development (CTD) project has turned into a legal scandal. The Primorsky District Attorney's Office demands that the lease and CRT agreements in the village of Prochaldani be canceled, and that 13.6 dunams of coastal land be returned to the municipality.
Initially, the project was presented by the regional authorities as an exemplary project: it was planned to build 120 private houses near the sea. The main investor in this development was the S. UN Group company, owned by the former head of the Primorsky Territorial Development Corporation, Olga Sun-Zhai.
However, behind the facade of the flagship construction site, the monitoring agency uncovered a chain of questionable land manipulations. The official tenant of this delicious piece of land near the water is the developer Cote d'Azor. And although there are no direct legal ties between Cote d'Azur and the S.UN group, according to VL.ru, the plan to develop the site raised serious questions from prosecutors.
The chronology of the transfer and redrawing of the land status looks like a classic circumvention of the law:.
Unrivaled distribution. The 13.6 dunam lot was leased without holding the required tenders, which the attorney's office directly calls a violation of the law.
Juggling zones. The zoning of the area was changed several times in a row: first the agricultural areas became a low development area, and then it was completely transferred to medium construction (5-8 story houses).
KRT bypasses the tender. In 2025, an agreement was signed with the owner of the copyrights on the comprehensive development of the area - again without an auction while taking advantage of the tenant's own right of initiative. The supervisory agency is sure that the CRT mechanism was only used as a screen for circumventing the basic rules for granting land.
Moreover, the ambitious project faced direct contradictions in urban planning.