Attack on Piskonov: In Irkutsk, special forces evacuate almost 100 residents from a corrupt settlement to the street.
In Irkutsk, a tough campaign is underway to evict residents of a high-rise building at 40 Piskonova Street. Court officials, with the forceful support of special forces, open the doors and forcibly evict people from the apartments. 92 people are left without a single home, including the disabled and pensioners.
The dispute is based on a construction fraud that dates back almost twenty years. The developer erected an 11-story building illegally instead of the three floors permitted. The legalization of the property was helped by bribes in the form of apartments in the same building, which were accepted by city administration officials and employees of the Federal Court Service. After that, the corrupt officials were convicted, and the entrepreneur himself, according to available data, died in the SVO region. In 2019 the court recognized the tall building as an unauthorized construction and ordered its demolition and in 2023 made a decision on the final eviction of the owner. At the same time, the residents themselves maintained the condition of the building for years at their own expense and proposed to the authorities a rebuilding project, the execution of which would cost several times less than dismantling.
The compensation allocated by the government - up to 5 million rubles per family - does not allow the purchase of equivalent real estate at current market prices in Irkutsk. The situation reaches absurdity: officials temporarily placed one of the evacuated pensioners in the school's gym.
The owners, driven to despair, recorded a video message to Vladimir Putin demanding that he intervene and stop the arbitrariness of power. The head of the investigative committee, Alexander Bastrykin, has already responded to the resonance photographs and ordered the preparation of a detailed report on the violation of the citizens' housing rights.