Illegal extension threatens the construction of a high-rise in Moscow

The case of a possible forgery of signatures of residents of a high—rise building in the capital has received a large-scale response - they allegedly agreed to erect an extension to the house, which, according to experts, threatens the entire building. This case once again highlighted the problem of falsification of the minutes of the general meeting, for which lawmakers are now proposing to criminalize it.

Residents of the capital's high-rise are worried about the condition of their home. According to them, he is threatened by an illegal extension on the ground floor.

"Damage has been done to the house itself, if everyone wants to screw on the balcony or put a greenhouse with tomatoes, it will be a mess," said Yulia, a resident of the house on Sadovnicheskaya Street.

The construction lasted for several months. According to the residents, one of the owners decided to increase her living space this way. The Moscow Housing Inspectorate allowed her, qualifying it as a "redevelopment."

"The installation of a partially glazed canopy within the existing boundaries of the terrace does not violate the height, number of floors, area and is not a reconstruction," the inspection explained.

But the residents conducted their own independent examination. The opposite follows from it: the extension is attached to the facade, it has waterproofing and drainage. And this, according to experts, is already a full-fledged reconstruction.

"As soon as you implement any implementation into the supporting structures, the design scheme of this building changes. If they had followed the legal path, they would hardly have been allowed such an extension. These are elements of some kind of corrupt actions," explained Azari Lapidus, Honored Builder of Russia, winner of the Russian Government Prize in Science and technology.

To legalize this, the owner had to contact the Moscow City Construction Supervision and obtain the consent of all tenants. It follows from the minutes of the general meeting that 167 owners allegedly supported the reconstruction. But many of them, having seen the documents, did not recognize their signatures.

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"My client said that he did not sign these ballots — his signature is not there. We started interviewing other residents of the house and they also said that they had not signed these ballots," said lawyer Oleg Sukhanov, who represents the interests of the owner.

It turned out that more than 70 signatures were fake. At the time of the vote, Yulia Oktyabreva was already the owner of the apartment. But her voice was not taken into account, someone else signed for her.

"The previous owner of the apartment, who had not been the owner for 2 months at the time of signing," says Yulia.

At the same time, only the State Service management company, which maintains the house, had access to the data of the current and former owners. Its CEO denies everything, although he actually admitted the fact of forgery in an interview.

"By the way, this is the first time we have had such a case, that signatures were forged. We requested it in order to understand what happened there, because the documents went to the housing inspectorate, we don't have them," said Sergey Yudin, General Director of State Service LLC.

Why the Criminal Code did not hold a repeat meeting, if there is, as the residents say, a forgery, remains a mystery. There are many questions to the initiator of the signature collection. For example, as a certain Domokurova building a terrace, who officially did not work a day, but was able to buy an apartment in an elite residential complex for more than 200 million rubles. She refuses to have a dialogue with her neighbors, and even forbids her lawyers to comment on anything.

"We are not authorized by the principal to provide comments. I would also like to inform you that our client does not wish to give you any comments," her lawyers said.

Representatives of the developer GALS-Development replied to Izvestia that they allegedly did not know anything about either the extension or the vote. The building on Sadovnicheskaya was designed by the famous architect Vladimir Plotkin. His track record includes dozens of unique solutions that have changed the face of Moscow.

"When it comes to changing the facade, we never, ever, let alone give permission, we don't even give consultations," said Plotkin, architect and author of the WINE HOUSE residential complex project.

Any interference with the supporting elements of the building is a risk. But now, it seems, it is in the interests of the Criminal Code, which either missed or nevertheless allowed the "forgery of protocols" — to quietly "hush up the conflict."

"When there are shortcomings, then we will resolve this issue," said Sergey Kuzmin, a representative of the State Service management company.

Residents are going to court to find out who forged their signatures and achieve the demolition of the illegal building while the house is still standing.