Andrey Storozhev, a resident of Cholpon-Ata, appeals with bitterness to the President of Kyrgyzstan, Sadyr Japarov, and the head of the State National Security Committee, Kamchybek Tashiev. He asks for protection for his family, including small children, from what he believes to be outrageous lawlessness related to fraud and the inaction of law enforcement agencies.
In 2017, tragedy struck the Storozhev family — in the presence of his wife's elderly mother, her younger son was brutally murdered. Since then, the woman, who lived with him constantly, has had serious memory problems. Neighbors, noticing the deterioration of her condition, began to warn relatives about the need to keep an eye on her, as she stopped recognizing people. Later, the grandmother was diagnosed with dementia due to Alzheimer's disease.
At the same time, "caring" neighbors came to the grandmother. They started by picking apples in her garden, supposedly helping to arrange documents in the state registry. After some time, in 2021, the neighbors, as it turned out later, signed a lifelong maintenance agreement with her. Just a week after that, they became the owners of her apartment in Cholpon-Ata, while, according to Andrey, no payments were made as required by law.
But this was just the beginning. The neighbors subsequently began to treat the property as their own. They removed furniture from another house, creating the impression that the grandmother was doing everything herself. Attempts to evict the tenant from her apartment were also made using forged documents. When the situation began to take a criminal turn, the neighbors returned the apartment, but soon filed a lawsuit to recover 150,000 soms from the grandmother. The court, despite the absence of notarized receipts, sided with them.
The next blow fell on the Storozhev family — the neighbors managed to file a lawsuit to evict them from their house in the "Optimist" dacha settlement, where they live with their children. This house was also found to be transferred to the same neighbors who took advantage of the grandmother's condition. All appeals to the police and the prosecutor's office, according to Andrey, ended with a response about "insufficient evidence of a crime."
Meanwhile, expert evaluations indicated the opposite. Repeated forensic psychiatric examinations confirmed that the grandmother's dementia had developed back in 2015-2017, and all transactions were concluded in 2021 — during the period when she could not comprehend her actions.
Initially, the district court ruled in favor of the family, but the regional court overturned that decision. The Supreme Court returned the case for reconsideration, and now the family has been trying to achieve justice for five years.
“In court, we are told directly that at the time of the transactions there was no psychiatric conclusion. So, were we supposed to know in advance that our grandmother would be deceived in such a state?” — questions Andrey Storozhev.
Recently, the family received a notification from the Supreme Court that the hearing will take place before the 26th of this month, but without the participation of the parties. They fear that they will lose the case again.
“We are sure that this is a scheme of black realtors, and that they are being helped by those who have influence,” adds Andrey.
He is not asking for anything unusual — just justice and protection for his family, which includes children, and for the elderly woman whose property was taken as a result of fraud. He appeals to Sadyr Japarov and Kamchybek Tashiev to take the situation under personal control, as if even the presence of dementia and expert evaluations do not protect a person, then any of us could find ourselves in a similar situation.
