The court refused to seize land in the settlement "Mayendorf Gardens" in Barvikha

Odintsovo City Court of Moscow Region refused to seize land in the elite settlement "Mayendorf Gardens" in Barvikha. This was reported by Izvestia correspondent from the courtroom on Monday, December 9.

In January, the Prosecutor General's Office filed a lawsuit with the court to seize 13 plots occupying a total of about 100 hectares of land in "Mayendorf Gardens".

Among the owners: former owner of Uralchem Dmitry Mazepin, wife of restaurateur Arkady Novikov Nadezhda Advokatova, entrepreneur and co-founder of the Magnit chain Alexei Bogachev.

According to the Prosecutor General's Office, the lands that formerly belonged to the government sanatorium "Barvikha" were alienated from federal property through a chain of transactions. Prosecutors consider this process illegal and extremely unprofitable for the state.

According to the case materials, the territory was sold in 2001 at an undervalued price, and the buyer, who was supposed to restore the castle of Baroness Mayendorf in exchange for the land, failed to fulfill his obligations.

Earlier, on September 10, plot owners told Izvestia that elite land plots ranging from 2,500 to 21,000 square meters in Barvikha near Moscow, worth several billion rubles, were purchased "through tenth hands" by bona fide buyers. For example, Mikhail Khubutia, the founder of Kolchuga gun stores and owner of commercial real estate in the center of Moscow, claimed that despite having paid off his loan, he had been unable to obtain permission from the authorities to build a building for a long time.