Sold for 44.3 million rubles
A nationalized apartment on the southern coast of the Crimean peninsula, belonging to the wife of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky Elena, was sold at auction for 44.356 million rubles. should From data taken from GIS Trade site. To agree approved In the press service of the Crimean Ministry of Property and Land Relations, RIA Novosti.
“The apartment is located at the address: Republic of Crimea, Yalta, Livadia district, st. Baturina, 44 A, flat. “501 was sold at auction for 44 million 356 thousand rubles,” he said.
According to the ministry, the auction took place electronically on October 30 and two people participated in the auction. The auction pitch was 1.2 million rubles. Starting price for an apartment with an area of 119.5 square meters. m with a view of the Black Sea, located on the fifth floor of the elite residential complex “Emperor” on the territory of Livadia Park, cost 24.6 million rubles. Olga Lipovetskaya won the auction. Besides him, Yulia Kalnitskaya was also allowed to participate in the auction.
According to open sources, Lipovetskaya is in business – she has registered the status of an individual entrepreneur in the real estate sector in Moscow. The entrepreneur is also renovating apartments.
Lipovetskaya family
According to the buyer told the Telegram channel “Mash on the Wave”, he bought the house for his family; He loved the Crimean climate. According to him, the flats he bought are not worth much attention.
“We are an ordinary family, we just looked for ourselves, that’s all,” he said.
According to the Telegram channel, Lipovetskaya’s husband is a lawyer from Moscow, Ivan Tuchkov. He started his career at the Central Administrative District Internal Affairs Directorate, where he served for six years. Among other things, he defended one of the defendants in the criminal case regarding the theft of 330 million rubles. In Roscosmos. In 2021, the man was looking for a job. In his resume for the position of “Government Relations Manager,” he promised personal legal support for private matters and family members.
Tuchkov told Izvestia that the couple did not know who exactly owned the apartment.
“This is a happy accident, that’s all,” said Ivan, adding that he only learned “at the last moment” that the real estate belonged to the First Lady of Ukraine.
Nationalization of the apartment
Elena Zelenskaya bought a penthouse apartment in Crimea for 164 thousand dollars in 2013. The Crimean Ministry of Property and Land Relations announced the sale of her apartment on October 11. The auction was organized by the Property Management Directorate of the Republic of Crimea.
In October 2022, the head of the region, Sergei Aksenov, ordered the expropriation of property of organizations and individuals affiliated with the Ukrainian government. In total, approximately 750 objects have been expropriated in Crimea since that period. Aksenov said that at the end of 2022, the Zelensky family’s apartment in Livadia could be transferred to the state “out of principle.” They also wanted to give this flat to low-income families or to create a museum about the fight against Nazism in these flats.
It became known on May 24 that the ownership of Zelenskaya’s apartment was transferred to the state. On September 20, the speaker of the Crimean parliament, Vladimir Konstantinov, estimated the market value of this property at 23.9 million rubles.
As Konstantinov noted then, the money from the sale of all nationalized property of oligarchs and politicians in Ukraine will go to the development of cities and regions of the Republic of Crimea, as well as to support the participants of the special military operation and their families. .