The ex-wife of producer Joseph Prigogine Elena, their children Dmitry and Danae and the woman's elderly mother have actually become homeless since the spring of last year.

“We have lost our only home.

Mom too.

Friends gave us shelter, allowed us to use their country house, now we all live there together.

Mom is also with us.

In the summer she lived in a country house, but now it is cold there, ”Elena Prigozhina told RT.

According to the former spouse of Elena, producer Joseph Prigogine, his relatives were simply put out on the street.

"Imagine, my ex-mother-in-law, Svetlana Andreevna, she is 81 years old, comes home, puts the key in the door and cannot get into her house, she is simply thrown out," Iosif Prigozhin told RT. 

The reason is the loans from microfinance organizations (MFIs) that the family took.

The Prigozhins themselves and their lawyer Vitaly Borodin are sure: under the guise of creditors, fraudsters acted, who deceived the family to sell them real estate by concluding fictitious transactions. 

“These persons (MFOs, where Prigozhins applied. - RT) carry out criminal, fraudulent activities.

They are engaged in taking away real estate, raider seizure by prior arrangement.

The experts of our "Federal Project for Security and the Fight against Corruption" saw the corpus delicti in their actions and were able to prove this to the investigation, having achieved the initiation of a criminal case, "explains RT Borodin.

As RT found out, a criminal case was initiated against unidentified persons from among the actual heads of MFOs under Part 4 of Art.

159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud committed by an organized group or on an especially large scale or resulting in the deprivation of a citizen's right to a dwelling).

The order to initiate proceedings is available to RT.

According to the lawyer, now all the materials have been transferred to the main investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

"The bank did not give a loan"

The story of how the former wife of a famous producer lost her property was widely covered in the media.

Initially, after a divorce from the famous producer, Elena Prigozhina and her family had three apartments - two in the same house in the center of Moscow, on Pokrovka Street, and one more in the Chertanovo area.

At some point, the children of Elena and Joseph, son Dmitry and daughter Danae, wanted to live away from each other, the woman said on the program of one of the federal TV channels.

The Prigozhins sold one of the two apartments on Pokrovka and first wanted to buy real estate.

But then they decided to invest the proceeds, more than 30 million rubles, in a family business - cargo transportation in the south of Russia.

For the first four years, Elena says, everything went well.

But then they needed money - as the woman says, for car repairs - and they decided to take out a loan for this purpose.

The banks, according to Prigozhina, were denied to her because she was in her pre-retirement age.

Then she accidentally found out about a microfinance organization and decided to apply there.

In the MFO, 4 million rubles were given to Elena without question on the bail of the second of her remaining apartments on Pokrovka.

For a while, the woman regularly paid the loan.

But then, Prigozhina told reporters, her father suddenly showed up.

At that time, the man had been divorced from Elena's mother for a long time, Prigozhina herself also did not communicate with him for many years.

The father, Elena continues, demanded money from her for his share in the apartment in Chertanovo, where her mother lived at that time.

“He said that either we were buying this share, or he would sell it to strangers, he threatened to add some bad people who would scoff at my mother,” Prigozhina said.

To find money for the ransom, the family again turned to the MFI.

Loan in the amount of 2.25 million rubles.

issued on the security of the share of Dmitry, the son of Elena and Joseph, in the Chertan apartment.

"They slipped another contract"

For the next two years, according to Elena, everything went well - despite the fact that the organization gave her money at huge interest rates, 36% per annum, she managed to regularly pay several hundred thousand a month.

As Elena said in an interview, they received money for payments from business.

In total, the family paid 6 million rubles.

But then, after two delays, the MFI decided not to make concessions.

The Prigozhins lost two apartments - both on Pokrovka and in Chertanovo.

Both of them went to microfinance structures.

In addition, Elena still owes them about 4 million rubles.

The court sided with the MFO, ordering Elena with her family and her 81-year-old mother Svetlana Sokolova to vacate the property.

Moreover, the Prigozhins, according to them, did not know about everything that was happening - as Elena Danae's daughter said, the first six sessions took place without their knowledge.

The family members learned that the apartments no longer belonged to them only when representatives of the MFO, together with the bailiffs, evicted her grandmother, Elena's mother, from the apartment in Chertanovo.

Soon after that, the decree on the eviction was handed over to the Prigozhins themselves.

Elena with her family and lawyer Vitaly Borodin, representing their interests, are sure: the woman was persuaded to make a deal by fraudulent means.

They argue that under the guise of a loan agreement, MFO employees, unnoticed by Prigozhina, slipped a completely different agreement to her signature - the sale and purchase of real estate.

"Have committed fraud"

"In the beginning, they were offered some services, and when they signed the documents, they were handed a completely different paper, they signed it without looking and found themselves without their real estate in Moscow worth more than 100 million rubles (meaning the market value of the objects. -

RT

)", - tells Vitaly Borodin.

According to the lawyer, the Prigozhins are not the only victims of this MFO.

“This is a real organized criminal group, we know about at least 11 other people who have suffered from their activities,” says Borodin.

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The case was not immediately initiated, says Iosif Prigogine.

“It took a lot of time, we went everywhere: we wrote letters to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, to the prosecutor’s office, to judges,” the producer recalls.

Prigozhin himself tried to solve the problem with the debts of his former family.

“I personally met with these scammers, and communicated culturally with their chief. I say: “I understand that people are fucked up. But let us find some solution, let me close the debt. " He answers: "No, no, but what about 40% per annum?" I said that this will not happen in principle. Then these people began to be rude and threaten me, ”says Prigozhin.

According to the decree on the initiation of a criminal case, “persons from among the actual heads of LLC Constanta Real-Estate, LLC Benefit and LLC Kortis (organizations that issued loans to Prigozhins, -

RT

)

, who were not identified by the investigation,

committed fraud, that is, theft of someone else's property by deception by a group of persons by prior conspiracy of the apartment of Prigozhina E. and the apartment of Prigozhin D. and Sokolova S. with a total cadastral value of 20,876,390 rubles, which is a particularly large amount, which they disposed of at their own discretion.

While the investigation is underway, at least one of the Prigozhins' apartments - the one on Pokrovka - is not threatened with sale, she was arrested as part of a criminal case.

“It has a ban on registration actions in Rosreestr, no one can use it,” says Elena Prigozhina.

Microcredit organizations did not comment on the initiation of a criminal case by RT.