In Kropyvnytskyi, a scheme for selling apartments of deceased and lonely people for over UAH 5.7 million was exposed

In Kropyvnytskyi, law enforcement officers exposed a group of individuals who for years illegally seized apartments of deceased and lonely citizens and sold them. According to the investigation, the total amount of damages exceeds UAH 5.7 million. This was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General, as conveyed by UNN.

Details

Under the procedural guidance of the Kirovohrad Regional Prosecutor's Office, six individuals have been notified of suspicion.

The investigation established that the scheme had been operating since at least 2017. The participants sought out apartments whose owners had died, had no heirs, or had not managed to formalize ownership rights. Subsequently, they fabricated forged title documents, registered ownership rights based on them, carried out notarized re-registration, and sold the housing. Buyers were unaware of the illegal origin of the apartments

According to the investigation, among the established episodes is the seizure of an apartment belonging to a woman who was undergoing treatment. The housing was registered to a straw person and sold. In another case, the group members appropriated the apartment of a deceased man without heirs, using forged documents.

On April 14, searches were conducted at the residences of the involved individuals. Some of the suspects were remanded in custody with the alternative of bail. Regarding others, a motion was filed with the court for a pre-trial detention measure in the form of custody with a bail of UAH 1 million

The actions of the suspects are classified under a number of articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, including fraud on a large and especially large scale, document forgery, legalization of property, and attempted property seizure (Parts 3, 4, 5 of Article 190, Parts 3, 4 of Article 358, Part 2 of Article 209, Part 3 of Article 15, Part 5 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

Recall

In Kyiv, a scheme for the illegal seizure of a minor's apartment worth UAH 1.2 million was exposed. A private executor lifted the arrest from the property, and a collector appropriated the real estate after the child's father died.