The court found the beggar woman guilty of fraud with apartments in Kyiv and forgery of documents

A poor woman who lived at the station and played the role of a fictitious owner of an apartment, will serve 5 years.

The woman had financial difficulties and lived at the station. In December 2021, a stranger approached her at the station and asked if she needed a job. At first, she was offered to sort products at the market in Troeshchyna.

But later this man, whose name she no longer remembers, offered her to earn money, explaining that she would only need to put her signature instead of another person. It was explained to her that there was nothing to worry about, as there were no heirs to the apartments for which the documents were drawn up.

The accused recalls that in the summer she put a signature in the passport in the name of another person, which was new and even without a photo. Later, a photo of the accused was pasted into this passport.

The perpetrators forged an agreement that the late grandmother managed to sell the apartment to another person, whose role was performed by the accused under the forged passport.

In June-July 2022, a woman came to the notary and signed the documents regarding the registration of ownership of the apartment. After visiting the notary, she received UAH 200.

The apartment was sold for 34 thousand dollars. The accused was promised one thousand hryvnias for her participation. But in fact, she always received 200 or 500 hryvnias.

Another time, they wanted to alienate an apartment whose owner had died through a mortgage scheme. The accused allegedly borrowed UAH 1.3 million and mortgaged this apartment. According to the terms of the contract, the money had to be returned within a month. It was expected that the loan would not be repaid and the apartment would be transferred to the mortgagee, who was also a dummy.

On December 13, 2022, the accused and the man who played the role of the mortgagee were detained by the police in the notary's office.

The Dnipro District Court of the city of Kyiv found the citizen guilty of fraudulently taking possession of property and using forged documents.

The accused allegedly does not know who exactly directed all the actions. She only signed the documents. The accused was also not interested in the owners of the apartments. She was told only that they died and the apartments should be sold.

The woman told the court that she regretted what she had done, explaining her actions as a difficult financial situation. At the court hearing, she asked for forgiveness from the victim woman who bought the apartment.

The testimony of a man who showed that his grandmother died on January 19, 2022, was given to the court. In connection with the start of a full-scale war, the procedure for accepting the inheritance was somewhat delayed, and later he learned that his grandmother's apartment had already been registered for another person. Since the grandson knew that the grandmother could not sell the apartment to anyone, he wrote a statement to the police.

The woman who bought the apartment said that the realtor introduced her to a man who called himself a representative of the owner of the apartment. She saw the owner for the first time at the notary only when she handed over the deposit for the apartment.

The victim had no doubts that the accused was the owner of the apartment. She received information from two notaries that the apartment is “clean”, not mortgaged, and has no encumbrances. When the victim finished renovating the purchased apartment, an investigator called her in the spring of 2023 and informed her about the fraud.

The woman was sentenced to 5 years in prison with confiscation of property. But until the verdict becomes final, she remains at large. Previously, the accused spent about 5 months in custody, and then she was released under house arrest – she apparently has an apartment in the Kyiv region.

Since the decision to register the ownership of the apartment had not yet been canceled, the sales contract apartment was not recognized by the court as invalid or unsettled, then the court considered the civil suit of the victim woman who bought the apartment from the fraudsters to be premature.

150,000 moral damages and 40,000 hryvnias will be charged as compensation for legal aid expenses of the victim's heir.< /p>

The organizers of the fraudulent takeover of the apartments are listed as unidentified persons in the verdict.

A man who was a fictitious mortgage holder was initially tried together with the accused.

However, in June 2023, his called up for military service under general mobilization. Therefore, the trial regarding this accused was stopped and the materials were separated into a separate proceeding.