The Ministry of Internal Affairs announced the discovery of fraud involving 300 hectares of land in the Moscow region worth more than a billion rubles; department for the Ramensky district was arrested in connection with the case The head of the Rosreestr , according to the ministry’s website .

“The illegal activities of an organized group, whose members are suspected of illegal alienation of lands in the Moscow region that are in federal and municipal ownership, have been suppressed. It was established that the group included officials from the Rosreestr department for the Ramensky district of the Moscow region,” the department said in a statement.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the scammers prepared fictitious certificates of land ownership of the 1992 model and powers of attorney for the right to dispose of land for fake or random people. Then, on their basis, using the provisions of the so-called dacha amnesty, they declared their rights to land plots and received authentic land certificates. After this, the plots were sold at market prices to interested parties. Based on this fact, a criminal case was initiated on the grounds of a crime under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud on an especially large scale).

“24 searches were carried out at the places of work and residence of the defendants in Moscow, the Moscow and Vladimir regions. Objects and documents confirming illegal activities were seized,” the Ministry of Internal Affairs also notes.

One of the most notorious scandals involving fraud with lands near Moscow broke out in February 2011, when Rosokhrankultura received information about the sale of part of the territory of the Borodino Military Historical Museum-Reserve and the construction that had begun there. In February and O. The head of the department, Viktor Petrakov , said that private cottages were being built on the territory of the reserve, which could lead to its destruction. After this, the Moscow region authorities imposed a ban on all work near the museum, and in the spring criminal cases were initiated.

By that time, according to the Investigative Committee, more than a hundred residential buildings and other buildings had already been erected on the territory of the museum-reserve. Summer residents who purchased land on the territory of the reserve (there were about 50 of them in total) were left without their cottages.

Another land fraud worth 1 billion rubles was uncovered in the Moscow region, a Rosreestr official was arrested - Gazeta.Ru