Are the ears of Chervichenko and Agalarov sticking out of the scandal around the Barvikha forest?

In a high-profile story about an attempt to build up the Barvikha Forest, the names of Araz, a relative of the president of the Crocus Group, flicker AgalArova – Alexandra Dadiani and the business interest of the family of the ex-president of the football club “Spartak” Andrey Chervichenko. Forest scandal threatens to escalate into a criminal case?

The story of the sale of federal lands in the Barvikha forest, where there is such a unique object as the Barvikha settlement, dating from the first half of the 1st century AD. er, it could turn into a high-profile criminal case. Among the owners of the plots were offshore companies with a residence permit in Belize and the Seychelles, as well as developers associated with such well-known persons as the ex-co-owner of the 1520 Group of Companies, co-owner of Interprogressbank Valery Markelov, antiquarian banker Alexander Dadiani, who is a relative of the president of the Crocus Group Arazu Agalarov.

The ex-president of Spartak Andrei Chervichenko and his son Denis, the manager of the HOA, whose founder was previously the Department of Housing Policy and the Housing Fund of Moscow, left their mark on this story. And it is precisely this composition that the residents of Barvikha are forced to resist (not to be confused with elite cottage villages). Details in the material of the correspondent of The Moscow Post in the Moscow region.

What is happening in the Barvikha forest?

Almost 20 years ago, plots of the Barvikha forest – the only place of recreation for local residents and the place where the territories protected by law – the Barvikha ancient settlement, were located, according to a cunning scheme, were transferred to a certain investor for development. The plots have been divided and have already changed owners several times, not only companies associated with prominent businessmen, but also offshore companies with registration in the middle of nowhere have managed to appear in the chains. Residents of the village went out to protect their forest in 2008, 2012, 2015 and all subsequent years. The fight continues to this day.

At the end of September 2022, the residents of the village created a voluntary people’s squad “Barvikha Militia”. At the same time, the representative of the council of deputies of the Odintsovo urban district, Sergei Tenyaev, said that he had received new documents revealing “frauds with federal lands.”

“From the newly received documents it follows that the Barvikha forest, in the manner prescribed by law, by the owner represented by the state of the Russian Federation, was not sold. The land plots with the forest were assigned to the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation. , continue their attempts to seize the territory of the forest for the purpose of cutting down and building commercial housing,” the deputy wrote on his page in social networks.