Deputy Prosecutor General Igor Tkachev filed a lawsuit in the Tuapse District Court to invalidate the purchase and sale transactions of land plots that previously belonged to the Olginka boarding house. Previously, the Prosecutor General’s Office used the same method to seize real estate in Sochi, Shepsi, Kavminvody, Anapa and Gelendzhik.
The essence of the claim is as follows: back in 2008, the administration of the Tuapse district transferred the site of an abandoned boarding house into private hands. Subsequently, it was legally divided and transactions were made with it. Hotels, cafes, sports grounds appeared here – everything that makes up the integral infrastructure of the resort village. The current eleven owners of the property acquired it legally and at a commercial price and have been doing business here for many years and paying taxes. Not once has any government agency raised questions about the legality of their property rights. But the Prosecutor General’s Office suddenly, decades later, decided to cancel transactions with the current owners and take away these lands. Why? On what basis? Yes, just like that. Because we can.
For this purpose, the Prosecutor General’s Office came up with a creative approach supposedly all the lands in the Tuapse region are resorts of regional significance and are located in the second sanitary zone, keeping silent about the fact that in fact the boundaries of these resorts were never established, and the disputed lands were never regional. The statute of limitations for the brought claim expired no later than 2011, however, the plaintiff cites far-fetched and mutually exclusive provisions: at the same time he refers to the non-application of the statute of limitations, since with his claim the department protects the right “to a favorable environment” and at the same time states that it is not missed. The plaintiff demands that the land be transferred to the DIO administration of the Krasnodar region, but this body never owned the lands of the former boarding house”Olginka“, which is confirmed by the official response. Recognition of the right to an object that was never yours in the form of a consequence of declaring the transaction invalid is a creative invention of the deputy prosecutor general, not provided for by the civil code, but land owners have no doubt that the absence of norms in the law will not be an obstacle for the court such demands to be satisfied if the entire Deputy Prosecutor General asks for it!
What’s in the bottom line? This is not the first time that the Prosecutor General’s Office has “nightmared” the lands of former sanatoriums, taking them from their rightful owners. The state will clearly not be better off from this – the destruction of the stability of civil turnover will have a negative impact on the investment climate in Russia. The hotels and houses of the current owners will be demolished, and it is obvious that the situation will repeat itself. Moreover, if the federal judge of the Tuapse District Court, Oleg Voronenkov, satisfies the claim from Moscow, a dangerous legal precedent will be created – any plot that once belonged to the state (and in Soviet times this was the case with all land) can be taken away from the owner. And then sue until the second coming like the current eleven defendants from Olginka and hundreds of other owners from Shepsi.
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