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How fraudsters can re-register someone else's apartment in their name, a lawyer warned
Criminals use various schemes, the main goal of which is to take away real estate from its rightful owners.
According to him, one of the most common fraudulent activities is renting out an apartment for a long term and making fake documents for it. Fraudsters sold rented apartments, posing as the legal owners.
The key element of the success of such a scheme, which is essentially the theft of someone else's home, is the entry of false information into the Unified Register of Real Estate. The lawyer warned that fraudsters are constantly improving their methods of deception and finding more and more loopholes to change information about apartments, Prime wrote.
At the same time, as the expert notes, the Russian state has completely transferred all responsibilities and privileges for ensuring the safety of residential real estate directly to the owners, so there will be no one to appeal to the fact that the apartment has “disappeared.” “Under people’s noses.
To avoid such situations, the expert recommended that all homeowners in Russia regularly request extracts from the Unified Real Estate Register in order to constantly check the accuracy of the information contained in the apartment documents. If even the slightest discrepancy is discovered, the process must be started immediately.