In Altai, land plots were taken away from 18 disabled people due to the lack of one document his own mistake, writes Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
Officials through the courts deprived the disabled of the land leased on preferential terms. The reason for the lawsuits was the lack of one certificate – about the need for housing. Employees of the property relations department of the Altai Territory (Altaykrayimushchestvo) did not include it in the list of documents required for the provision of land.
“I was shocked when I received a subpoena. I was exposed as a criminal, as if I deliberately did not submit any data and illegally obtained land. But I presented all the documents that were asked of me. And in this list there was no certificate of need, “- said one of the participants in the incident, a disabled person of the second group from the Barnaul village of Mokhnatushka, Viktor Pozhidaev. Two years ago, he and his son decided to build a new house, asking Altaykrayimushchestvo for rent a land plot of 15 acres.
According to Pozhidaev, he did not know that, as a disabled person, he was supposed to be given priority land allocation without an auction. Officials demanded a copy of the passport and a certificate of disability and in November 2019 provided the land on a 20-year lease. Two years later, Altaykrayimushchestvo went to court with a demand to terminate the lease due to the lack of a certificate of need for housing. The district and regional courts upheld the department's position.
Pozhidaev spent almost his entire monthly disability pension on registering the site for cadastral registration – his only source of income. He also allocated funds for earthworks and leveling the site for construction. “We have a law on social support for people with disabilities, but in reality it’s not support, but mockery,” said attorney Anna Navratil.
Officials of Altai Kraiimushchestvo stated that they acted in accordance with the law. At the time the land was allocated, they were complying with a government decree requiring only a certificate of disability and an application. The prosecutor's office of the Altai Territory challenged the legality of one of these transactions, and the court satisfied the claim. Pozhidaev said that he would appeal this decision and was ready to go to the Supreme Court.
At the end of October, Russian lawyer Irina Zuy listed the risks in transactions of purchase and sale of apartments, which residents of the country sometimes do not know about. Thus, a buyer may lose an apartment in a new building if the developer has rented land from the state for business development, and in fact is building housing on it.