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☑️ Apartments that already had owners were sold: a scheme worth over 175 million UAH was uncovered in Kyiv
Law enforcement carried out more than two dozen searches in Kyiv, Dnipro and other cities. This concerns a scheme of double sales of apartments in the "Delmar Residential Complex" located in Kyiv at Andriya Verkhovlyada 14a in Kyiv.
A group of people from the construction company "Delmar", with the aim of seizing funds, in prior collusion with unidentified persons produced technical passports for 56 apartments in the multi-apartment residential building "Delmar Residential Complex" for the repeated sale of property rights to apartments of persons who invested at the early design and construction stage of the residential complex. The prosecutor believes that the organizer of the criminal scheme is Oleksandr Turchyn, born in 12.05.1971. He exerts effective control over the Delmar group of companies, coordinates participants’ actions and allocates roles, ensures the falsification of documents and the illegal disposal of apartments, organized the appointment of nominal persons to controlled enterprises, controls the financial flows from real estate sales and takes measures to launder the illegally obtained funds.
However, this may involve not only abuses at the capital’s "Delray Residential Complex", but also at several other projects of the Delmar group of companies, founded by developer and former Dnipro City Council deputy Oleksandr Turchyn in Kyiv and Dnipro. During meetings with investors of the "Myronova" residential complex in Dnipro, Oleksandr Turchyn repeatedly claimed that he had connections in the Office of the President and the Main Intelligence Directorate.
As soon as searches began in early June, Oleksandr Turchyn left the country.
As of today, Delmar has problems finishing at least two more residential complexes: "Myronova" in Dnipro and "Delray" in Kyiv.
No less shocking is the confession of the director of Delmar Arena LLC. As it turned out, the company’s director — the person whose signature is on investor agreements for the apartments — is Aliyev Asadulah Anver Ogly, an ordinary security guard who was given 200 dollars for this.
The Office of the Prosecutor General officially stated that a large-scale real estate fraud scheme in a new building in Pechersk, Kyiv, has been uncovered. According to the investigation, it was organized by a former deputy of the Dnipro City Council. He acquired corporate rights to a group of companies that owned several unfinished projects in the city center, including a residential complex in Pechersk.
At that time most apartments in the building had already been sold to investors. Property rights to another 50 apartments belonged, by court decision, to one of Ukraine’s state banks. Only part of the premises remained free. However, the scheme participants disposed of the entire building as if the previous owners did not exist.
To sell apartments whose rights belonged to the state bank, they changed the technical characteristics of the units and used forged documents. In this way, 50 apartments were transferred to third parties. Losses to the state bank exceeded 164 million UAH.
Using a similar scheme, they additionally resold eight more apartments whose property rights already belonged to private individuals. People paid for housing, but later the same square meters were registered to other buyers.
To further complicate establishing the rights of the defrauded investors, the scheme participants changed the legal address of the residential complex. And the planned 27-story building, after completion, became 32-stories. The total amount of established losses is over 175 million UAH.
According to the investigation, the illegally obtained funds were cashed out, routed through controlled enterprises, invested in property purchases and other construction projects.
Nine people have been notified of suspicion: the organizer and eight accomplices. Depending on each person’s role, their actions have been qualified as fraud, legalization of property obtained by criminal means, and use of forged documents. The question of preventive measures is being decided.
And this may not be the full scale of the scheme. We are checking information about other possible double sales, establishing the full number of victims and tracing the movement of the illegally obtained funds.
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