Residents of a house in Moscow are suing the Criminal Code over an illegal veranda

Legal proceedings have begun in Moscow in a high-profile case of possible forgery of signatures of apartment owners who are convinced that someone falsified documents to approve an extension to a high-rise building, and now many fear for the safety of the house. The forgery scheme itself may turn out to be much larger. Izvestia correspondent Kirill Olkov has studied several similar cases and found strange coincidences that are rarely accidental.

There is a large-scale housing dispute in the Meshchansky court. The owners of the capital's residential complex want justice, demanding the demolition of an illegal extension that threatens their home.

"It is illegal, the tenants did not vote for it, they claim that their signatures were forged," said Oleg Sukhanov, a lawyer and representative of the owner.

"The tenants of the house are suing over this illegal extension on the ground floor. They did not give consent, and their signatures were forged," the correspondent explained.

A certain Nadezhda Domokurova, who, according to official data, has never worked, but was able to buy an apartment for more than 200 million rubles, added a veranda to it. Neither she nor her lawyer gives any comments on this issue. The neighbors suspect that their signatures were forged in order to get permission for this.

"You can see the signature, it doesn't even look like mine," complained a resident of the residential complex.

It violates the facade, seizes part of the house and, according to experts, seriously threatens the security of the building. According to the results of an independent examination, the load on the foundation increased by 15 tons. It is impossible to predict how the house will behave in the future: there are many tragic examples. For such disputed facilities, everyone's consent is required, but most residents have not even seen the minutes of the general meeting.

"When we communicate with each other, we cannot find a single person who would vote for, but according to the documents it turns out that everyone is in favor," complained Olga Koksenkova, a resident of the house.

The house on Sadovnicheskaya Street is managed by the State Service company, headed by Sergey Yudin, developer of GALS-Development. There is a long-standing bond between them. Yudin's previous company, State Ltd., operated another Galsa complex, Literator, whose owners have been suing for eight years. The developer offered apartments with fireplaces to some buyers, and a place under a shady canopy to others, but in order to build it, the owner of one of the apartments arbitrarily laid a chimney coming from the other.

"They found construction debris in the apartment, and the operatives questioned the foreman from above, who wrote an explanation that yes, he had destroyed the chimney," said David Kirilenko, a representative of the owner.

The situation is one-on-one, as in the residential complex on Sadovnicheskaya: the same head of the management company, the same developer and the conflict over the extension. Everything follows the same pattern, with one difference.: In principle, no one presented any signatures, even forged ones, and the head of the Criminal Code, apparently, knew about it.

"The fact that there was no meeting, I am telling you quite responsibly how it happened, this is not a question for us," said Sergey Yudin, CEO of the management company.

The court sorted out the issue for them and decided to demolish the annex, but it is still there. The representative of its owner claims that the conflict was laid by the developer initially.

"The developer was in charge of everything, as soon as a constructive contradiction is laid, there will be a conflict. Some people want fireplaces, but this one said: I bought a penthouse, I want to breathe clean air on the terrace," said Evgeny Imenitov, a representative of the owner.

It will not work to hide: the government is preparing measures against capital repairs in a "black" way

At the same time, the cost of work in the MCD may rise in price, industry experts say.

But in both cases, the developer absolves himself of responsibility.

"Our company has not received any lawsuits or claims from the owners of the Wine House residential complex and the Literator residential complex as a developer. The proceedings indicated in the request relate exclusively to the relationship between the owners," the press service of Hals reported.

At the same time, both management companies are, by a strange coincidence, led by the same person, Sergey Yudin, who has long worked closely with the developer.

"Construction companies that build residential buildings, they usually organize a management company. When there is a management company, it will confirm everything there," explained State Duma deputy Yevgeny Marchenko.

According to experts, 80% of the minutes of the general meeting are fake. The authenticity of the collected documents is not checked by the Moscow Housing Inspectorate. The deputies of the State Duma are going to equate the forgery of the minutes of the general meeting to criminal liability, they even want to introduce a separate article for falsifying signatures, and to give additional responsibilities to the Moscow Housing Inspectorate.

"When the housing inspectorate, when, for example, 10% of the owners show up that they did not participate in the meeting, they must go to an extraordinary inspection, they themselves go to court," added Svetlana Razvorotneva, deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Construction and Housing and Communal Services.

So far, it is up to the tenants themselves to achieve legality. According to the owners, more than 70 signatures were forged in the Wine House residential complex. It's up to the court to figure out who falsified the minutes of the meeting and how these papers were accepted in the first place.

All important news is on the Izvestia channel in the MAX messenger.