Did you know that having bought an apartment, you can squeeze it out for the debts of the former owner? …

Did you know that having bought an apartment, you can squeeze it out for the debts of the former owner? It turns out that happens. And this is a new type of fraud.

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One decent family in 2015 buys an apartment on Kutuzovsky for 140 million rubles. There, the owner of the housing Pavel Zakharov sets with his family: with children and his wife. They live happily until lenders come to take the apartment for the debt of the former owner. The ex-owner of Alexei Knekov in 2018 was declared bankrupt, and in 2020 miraculously the judge of the Dorogomilovsky court recognizes the contract of sale of 2015 invalid. New, innocent owners need to free the apartment to creditors of the former owner.

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Wild story. When 5 years after buying an apartment you are put on the street. No housing, no money.

They say that this is a new scheme for real estate fraud. With the participation of black realtors and law enforcement officers.

Previously, the apartment on Kutuzovsky belonged to Alexei Knekov. He with partners owned wood processing enterprises. Quite large offices in the market-LLC Senezh-Rales and LLC Senezh-Distribution. So, these partners – spouses Vladimir and Elena Maksimov and pose at first on a common business, and strongly after delegation of companies – to the apartment.

In 2017, the Maxims removed Knekov from the business. And in 2018, the court on their claim, Alexei Knekov was declared bankrupt, and for some reason the judge decided to transfer the apartment to the creditors to the ownership of the apartment 5 years ago.

It turns out that the former owner is in the same scheme: he has, in addition to the apartment already devoted to other people, a bunch of property. But he does not want to sell his assets in order to pay off debts. Knekov threw all the responsibility to the new owners of his former apartment.

The current owner Pavel Zakharov had to confirm in court that at the time of the transaction he had the necessary money, and he paid everything. But this did not help.

On December 28, 2020, the judge of the Dorogomilovsky District Court Morozova N.V. She terminated the contract of sale of the apartment. The Zakharov family with young children was left without an apartment and without 140 million rubles.

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