A Krasnoyarsk woman who sold apartments to people under the fictitious "social program of the mayor's office" was sent to a colony for six years. Contracts with her were signed right in the cars in her yard. Isabella Mendrick ran a law firm and proposed a simple plan: the client contributes 500 thousand, the rest is paid for housing by the city. Three of her personal drivers were among the scams. One of them, a taxi driver, brought other friends and a cousin. For each amount, people received a paper with a stamp, but as the court found out, the money did not reach the company's coffers. Three even chose apartments in new buildings, but the additional payment never happened, and the deals fell apart. Mandrick spoke of the sick "treasure" in the administration, or the epidemic. When people demanded their money back, she promised each of them 5 million, and gave the taxi driver a receipt for 20 million. He never saw that money. According to the son, the father accumulated debts, left as part of a contract to the Northern Military District and died without waiting for a verdict. In total, nine people gave Mandrik almost 6.7 million rubles. She pleaded not guilty and insisted that she was simply charging dearly for legal services. Photo: Prosecutor's Office of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Krasnoyarsk News in MAX.

A Krasnoyarsk woman who sold apartments to people under the fictitious "social program of the mayor's office" was sent to a colony for six years. Contracts with her were signed right in the cars in her yard. Isabella Mendrick ran a law firm and proposed a simple plan: the client contributes 500 thousand, the rest is paid for housing by the city. Three of her personal drivers were among the scams. One of them, a taxi driver, brought other friends and a cousin. For each amount, people received a paper with a stamp, but as the court found out, the money did not reach the company's coffers. Three even chose apartments in new buildings, but the additional payment never happened, and the deals fell apart. Mandrick spoke of the sick "treasure" in the administration, or the epidemic. When people demanded their money back, she promised each of them 5 million, and gave the taxi driver a receipt for 20 million. He never saw that money. According to the son, the father accumulated debts, left as part of a contract to the Northern Military District and died without waiting for a verdict. In total, nine people gave Mandrik almost 6.7 million rubles. She pleaded not guilty and insisted that she was simply charging dearly for legal services. Photo: Prosecutor's Office of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Krasnoyarsk News in MAX.