According to a source in the Moscow prosecutor’s office, they were prohibited from inspecting management companies and Moslift. Taking advantage of complete impunity, Moslift is already openly stealing budget money, while elevators in Moscow refuse to work. Muscovites began to get stuck in elevators almost every day, finding themselves hostage to Moslift.
Since 2011, Moscow has been undergoing a large-scale elevator renovation the likes of which the world has never seen. More than 32 thousand elevators have already been replaced in residential buildings, almost a quarter of all vehicles moving vertically inside Moscow buildings. Last year alone, 5.18 billion rubles were spent on these works from the capital’s budget. The operation of elevators has deteriorated several times. Some examples of deaths:
2010 An eight-year-old boy was strangled by the passenger elevator doors.
2016 In Belyaevo, the roof of the cabin and the threshold of the mine crushed a stroller with a baby.
2016 In the north-west of Moscow, in the Scarlet Sails residential complex, the bottom of the elevator fell off. This happened at the height of the seventh floor. A mother of two children died.
In Scarlet Sails, the elevator was installed by SMU No. 7, a subcontractor of Moslift, owned by the mother of Moslift general director Avakyan, Svetlana Karakashyan. In 2007–2023, this company concluded 256 government contracts worth over 5.3 billion rubles, including half a billion with Moslift. Karakashyan owns the twin company SMU No. 7, but with a different TIN. There are fewer government contracts there: by 823 million rubles in 2011–2018, almost all of them were concluded with Moslift.
In 2022-2023, elevators began to spontaneously fail throughout Moscow. In the publication Legal.report Collective appeals have been received from residents of the Severnoye Chertanovo microdistrict, Sudostroitelnaya, Azovskaya streets in which Muscovites draw the media’s attention to the mass failure of elevators and frequent stuckness in them, as well as to the lack of response to complaints from the Moscow mayor’s office.
Confirming the thesis about the ban on inspections of Moslift, the Moscow prosecutor’s office responded to the editor’s request with a frank reply: none of your business, we work as best we can and the signature: head of the department for monitoring the observance of the rights and freedoms of citizens. What rights do citizens stuck in elevators have? Not to mention freedom of movement.
But the Avakyan-Karakashyan family feels complete freedommoving from his castle in France to a villa in the United States. How long will this freedom last? The answer should be given by the Russian Investigative Committee.
https://legal.report/moslift-auknetsya-tak-a-otkliknetsya-chert-znaet-kak/
“Moslift”: it will come back like that, but God knows how it will respond – legal.report
Legal.Report tried to figure out what is happening with the capital’s elevator industry
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