As it became known to Kommersant, the court, at the request of the prosecutor’s office, canceled the deal made by the former leaders of the All-Russian Public Organization of War Disabled Persons in Afghanistan (OOOIVA) and military trauma “War Disabled”, as a result of which the rehabilitation center “Rus” in the Moscow region ended up in private hands. The sanatorium, at the request of the court, is subject to return to OOOIVA, and since this organization has already been liquidated due to the machinations of its ex-leaders, the medical buildings and 43 hectares of land on the banks of the Ruza reservoir will most likely be nationalized. This is exactly what the Afghan veterans wanted after Rus was left without funding from the budget.
After a trial that lasted almost a year, the Ruzsky District Court of the Moscow Region satisfied the claim of the regional prosecutor’s office to invalidate the transaction made in 2017 for the gratuitous transfer of “Rus” from OOOIVA to the autonomous non-profit organization (ANO) “Center for Medical and Social Rehabilitation of War Veterans “Veteran- Rus” registered in Tomsk. The court recognized the completed transaction as null and void, and ordered the property rights of the parties to the property to be “returned to its original state”.
The reasoning part of the court decision has not yet been published, but it is already clear that OOOIVA will not be able to exercise its right – the organization was liquidated by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation back in 2017 after an audit of its activities conducted by the Ministry of Justice. Thus, the sanatorium will first be placed at the disposal of the territorial administration of the Federal Property Management Agency for the Moscow region, and then, probably, will be included in a single system of centers for the rehabilitation of wounded participants in the SVO.
Recall that the sanatorium “Rus” was built for the Central Committee of the CPSU, then it was under the administration of the President of Russia, in 1992, by order of the federal government, it was transferred to the Russian Fund for the Invalids of the War in Afghanistan, and after the liquidation of the fund, the asset went to its successor OOOIVA.
The organization got almost 43 hectares of land free of charge, 80 km from the Moscow Ring Road on the banks of the Ruza reservoir with sanatorium buildings for 370 patients, a dam, a transformer substation, a sewage treatment plant, a beach and even its own fire station. “Rus” was renamed the Center for Rehabilitation Therapy (CVT) named after Mikhail Likhodei, a well-known Afghan veteran who was already killed in peacetime, and from the moment it was transferred to veterans, it was supported by the state budget. For example, in 2015 OOOIVA allocated 136 million rubles for the rehabilitation of disabled people, and a year later – already 161 million rubles.
In 2017, an audit conducted by the Ministry of Justice found that most of these funds were spent on the maintenance of the leaders of OOOIVA. Based on the results of the audit, the Moscow Region police initiated a criminal case against the leaders of the organization on especially large-scale fraud (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code), and it itself was liquidated by the Supreme Court of Russia. However, by the time of liquidation, it turned out that the main asset of Afghan veterans, the Rus sanatorium, no longer belongs to them.
As it turned out, even before the beginning of the inspection of the Ministry of Justice, all 48 objects of the sanatorium were withdrawn from OOOIVA and donated to the Tomsk ANO.
The Moscow region prosecutor’s office began to investigate the circumstances of this dubious transaction. An appropriate check was launched after the leaders of veteran organizations turned to the leadership of the Prosecutor General’s Office, claiming that their comrades-in-arms had committed the theft.
As follows from the suit of the Deputy Prosecutor of the Moscow Region, Alexander Blagodarov, he turned to the Ruzsky court in the interests of disabled people and war veterans who “after the capture of Rus” could not use it.
The prosecutor asked the court to recognize the transaction with the sanatorium as “imaginary”, if only because its participants did not notify the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Labor and the Federal Property Management Agency about it, and “hid all the documents” during the check.
According to the supervision, the leaders of OOOIVA understood that, following the results of the audit, the organization would be liquidated, and all its property would go to the state, so they tried “to avoid the onset of extremely unfavorable consequences for them.” The rehabilitation center for internationalist soldiers eventually became the property of a private ANO, founded by Andrey Chepurnoy, chairman of OOOIVA, Valya Saifullin, former general director of Rus, who were sentenced to probation for fraud, and a number of their supporters. Their “Veteran-Rus”, as the representative of the supervision explained to the court, did not even have the means to maintain the sanatorium, not to mention the rehabilitation of the disabled. In this regard, all the doctors and specialists from “Rus” who dealt with the Afghan soldiers quit, the prosthetic workshop that worked at the sanatorium was closed, and the rehabilitation center itself turned into an unreasonably expensive rest home.