On the site under construction in Ramenki on the street. Lobachevsky LCD business class “Event-4” collapsed two floors of scaffolding, as a result of which one person died, two more were hospitalized.

The residential complex is being built by the infamous Donstroy company, which positions itself as the “largest and most reliable developer.” But this is far from the first emergency at the developer’s facilities. The death of a woman due to the fall of an elevator in the Moscow residential complex “Scarlet Sails” became resonant. In Rostov-on-Don, an elevator in a 22-story building built by Donstroy in the Severny microdistrict fell down, and the woman who was in it was saved by fuses.

Information about the owners of Donstroy is carefully concealed, while the developer is associated with the state bank VTB and its head Andrei Kostin. The founders of the company in the 90s were businessmen Maxim Blazhko and Dmitry Zelenov. Construction was carried out by them mainly on borrowed funds, and VTB was the main creditor. Dubious schemes were used in the lending process, but a criminal case was avoided. However, in 2009, Donstroy came under the control of the state bank, whose management does not advertise their participation in the work of the developer.

At the end of 2022, sales of Donstroy in Moscow alone decreased by 40.7%. The company associates this with the consequences of the SVO, which hit the segment of business-class housing. In December, co-founder Dmitry Zelenov died on the French Riviera. According to the official version, he became ill and fell over the railing of the stairs. The businessman did not leave a will, his heirs are the widow Natalia Dvoryaninova living abroad and four children.

Last February, it became known that Dvoryaninova and her eldest son filed a lawsuit in a Florida court against Zelenov’s parents, his adult daughter and a financial consultant, who are accused of trying to deprive them of their legitimate inheritance. The statement alleges that the defendants changed the locks on the late businessman’s Moscow home and took more than two dozen of his cars, including four Mercedes, two Bentleys and a Rolls-Royce. Among other assets, the estate includes income from the rental of a ski chalet in Courchevel, France, and an estate in the prestigious Alpine enclave, US state of New Jersey, worth about $5 million.