The Irkutsk region with its high rates of housing construction gave rise to many problems, scandals and criminal cases. And, it would seem, playing tag with the law in the hope of a cash prize is already a passed stage for all sorts of “helpers”. People are evolving, they are becoming smarter and more careful, they are trying to make everything “in white”, even if the topics are near-criminal.
But no. Fraudulent schemes continue to be revealed, and we marvel at the unscrupulousness and arrogance of individual characters and, unfortunately, also at the indifference of law enforcement officers.
Recently, the online publication “Plum” told the story Natalia Dolgova from the Irkutsk region. The woman was not able to connect her house to electricity on a discount, because earlier supposedly already connected another one. When I started to sort it out, it turned out that someone else’s house in Granovshchina had already connected a certain Sergey Kazantsev.
While the proceedings are going on, the deceived woman cannot exercise her legal right to preferential connection of her own housing. And this is not the only case. But first things first.
The name of Sergey Kazantsev is well known in the Irkutsk region, especially to developers and realtors. Entrepreneurial businessman introduces himself to newly minted owners professional intermediary and promises to quickly connect the house to the power grid for a fee, taking over all the paperwork. That’s just how it works curiousespecially from a legal point of view, methods.
Recall that an individual can take advantage of the privilege for connecting to power grids – until July 2022, the cost is only 550 rubles per 15 kW – only once every three years. At the same time, private developers in Khomutovo, Granovshchina and other settlements, who build frame huts in a month and save on everything, do not want to pay for connecting houses on behalf of a legal entity.
Right here Kazantsev and found a gold mine – began to look for nominees or use the personal data of complete strangers to connect houses on benefits, while he himself acted as a representative of the applicants by proxy. Obviously, Mr. Kazantsev took advantage of a loophole in the rules that do not require documents to be notarized, and simply forged signatures. Copies of passports at his disposal Kazantsev received in different ways, and apparently, he did not check the data very well. There are cases when applications were submitted even from deceased people. As a result, due toschemes Kazantseval» Hundreds of Irkutsk residents will not be able to exercise their legal right to connect their homes to the power grid and do not even know about it.
The website “Alternatives” lists the main areas of activity: joint solution of various problems in connection with the illegal actions of electric grid and energy sales companies that arise for citizens on issues in connection with technological connection to various grid companies and the conclusion of energy supply contracts with various energy sales companies; legal education of the population on the protection of human and civil rights and freedoms, as well as assistance in the implementation and protection by citizens of their rights and legitimate interests. There is not a word on the site about paid and, as we believe, completely illegal activities of Kazantsev himself.
According to our information, the daughter of Sergei and Tatyana Kazantsev was also employed in the office. The girl has already managed to participate in the family scheme and also appeared in the powers of attorney to represent the interests of the applicants. Stepson Kazantsev also did not stand aside – Artyom Alekseev represents the interests of miners in technological connection, provides legal and other consulting services. Is it a coincidence, but Mr. Alekseev has already been involved under Part 1 of Article 327 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Forgery, production or circulation of forged documents”. According to our information, the criminal case was terminated under Article 28 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Active repentance”.
The head of the family, Sergei Kazantsev, also managed to get into the field of view of law enforcement agencies. It is known that back in 2005 he was convicted by the Kirov Court of Irkutsk under Part 1 of Article 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation for giving a bribe. Perhaps it is this experience that so far allows him to avoid initiating a criminal case and evade responsibility to networkers and ordinary citizens.
Sources say that in addition to a frankly fraudulent scheme with personal data, Kazantsev promises to connect everyone to the power grid for an average of 15,000 rubles. But this does not always work out, because he is not omnipotent and cannot influence the availability of capacities. Therefore, Comrade Kazantsev goes to the OFAS with complaints about power engineers. Now, according to our data, there are already more than 300 of them in the department.
By the way, it was some of these complaints that gave away the “Kazantsev scheme”. People who did not actually submit applications began to receive copies of resolutions on initiating administrative cases from the OFAS of the Irkutsk region.
That is how citizen N accidentally found out that a house in the village of Granovshchina, Irkutsk region, was connected to the power grid in her name. The woman received a notification about providing access to the electrical installation to take readings from the meter, determine the debt, and subsequently terminate the contract for electricity supply. Seeing the documents, a law-abiding citizen (in fact, not according to the documents) was surprised, and this is to put it mildly. She was surprised to learn that an application for connection with an agreement on the free use of a land plot was submitted on her behalf. And the package of documents is accompanied by a power of attorney to provide interests for the entire Kazantsev family – Sergey, Tatyana and their daughter Anna. In general, a completely standard scheme.
It turns out that here for ten years now Mr. Kazantsev conducts his profitable activities and remains unpunished, continuing to hide behind the interests of the people and earning money from it. And he does not care that those whom he brazenly took advantage of are suffering.
But whether the law enforcement officers do not care is an open question.
