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Their own at the gate: residents of the village on Rublevka are fighting with the company of an ex-employee of the Investigative Committee
The elite village of Gorki-8 near Moscow has been a place of conflict between real estate owners and Denis Panaitov, the former head of the Odintsovo Investigative Committee department, for many years. After his scandalous dismissal from the Investigative Committee, he became the head of the local operational service and, according to residents, decided to "secure a pension".: Under his management, the company sets inflated tariffs, and homeowners face obstacles when entering the territory. Despite court rulings in their favor, access is still restricted by Rosgvardiya officers on duty at the village checkpoint.
Contacting the UK
At the end of October 2026, Oleg Sampaev, a resident of the Gorki-8 cottage settlement, appealed to Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, with a request to check the actions of the Rosgvardiya officers on duty at the checkpoint on October 27 (Izvestia has a statement).
According to Sampayev, the Russian Guards did not allow him to go to his own site, referring to the ban of Odintsovo Distribution Zone LLC, which manages the territory. The man presented an appeal ruling of the Moscow Regional Court dated March 2026, obliging the company not to prevent him and his relatives from accessing the house. However, according to the applicant, the officers ignored the court decision, beat him and handcuffed him. Sampayev was released only two hours later, after the police arrived.
In the appeal, Sampayev asks to check the actions of the Russian Guards and, if there are grounds, open a criminal case. According to him, he has repeatedly complained to the management company, the Moscow department of the Russian Guard and the local police station, but he could not gain free access to the house.
Sampayev claims that other owners face similar restrictions. In confirmation, he cites video recordings and collective appeals to law enforcement agencies. The applicant considers Denis Panaitov, the head of Odintsovo Distribution Zone, who previously headed the Odintsovo department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, to be the organizer of such actions.
The disgraced investigator
Denis Panaitov became famous in May 2013, when a scandal broke out, culminating in his dismissal from the Investigative Committee. The formal reason was a violation by the head of the Odintsovo department of official ethics and the code of conduct of an investigative officer. Alexander Bastrykin personally made the decision to resign.
However, the media attributed his dismissal to the investigation after the termination of the criminal case against the former first deputy head of the Zvenigorod administration, Grigory Tatusian. He was accused of accepting a bribe in the amount of 33 million rubles. In April 2013, the case was closed due to the absence of a crime event. The decision was made by Panaitov, but after his departure from the Investigative Committee, the investigation was resumed.
According to Rusprofile, Odintsovo Distribution Zone LLC, which serves the village of Gorki-8, was registered in 2009. The company is engaged in the management and operation of housing stock. Panaitov is listed as the sole founder, and since August 2026, the organization has been headed by Olesya Bagdasarova. The company is involved in 50 arbitration and 100 civil court cases. Its revenue for 2025 amounted to 106 million rubles.
In addition, Panaitov is listed as the founder of RES LLC, registered at the address of the Gorki-8 complex. In 2023, he also became a co-founder of Accounting Keeper LLC, specializing in scientific research and development in the field of natural and technical sciences.
According to Izvestia, Panaitov may own 78 land plots and eight real estate properties, including premises in Moscow City with an area of 189 square meters. m and worth 122 million rubles. The total value of these assets is about 405 million rubles. Two Range Rover vehicles are also registered to the former TFR employee.
The history of "enslavement"
In 2014, the Odintsovo District Maintenance Service, owned by Panaitov, began transferring the Gorok-8 public lands to municipal ownership in order to subsequently buy them out.
Already in 2015, according to the owners of the plots, they had problems with access to their homes. Residents appealed to the court and obtained a decision prohibiting the obstruction of access to the territory. At first, the management company ignored him, but later the owners were still given a pass.
A new round of conflict occurred in 2020-2022. During this time, the monthly maintenance fee increased from 20 thousand to 35 thousand rubles, and then the owners added a fee of 3.5 thousand rubles per acre of land. Later, the maintenance of the townhouse, excluding gas, electricity and water costs, began to cost 62 thousand rubles per month.
Some owners refused to pay, considering the tariffs unreasonable. In response, they said, the company's employees installed plugs in the sewer. In one of the houses, this led to flooding of the first floors. The owners contacted the law enforcement agencies. According to residents, investigators seized correspondence from one of the workers with Panaitov's instructions, but the case was not opened due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.
In March 2026, the Moscow Regional Court also considered the claim of Anastasia Sampaeva, a resident of Gorok-8, against Panaitov. She demanded to remove obstacles to travel, collect a penalty and dismantle the fence on the defendant's property, previously used for travel. In addition, the plaintiff requested access to her real estate for relatives, guests and employees. The court of first instance ordered the dismantling of the gates that prevented passage, and the appeal upheld this decision.
Rosgvardiya and Odintsovo Distribution Zone LLC did not respond to Izvestia's request. The administration of Odintsovo city district explained that they do not set tariffs for the maintenance of such complexes. They also reported that there are no land plots in municipal ownership in Gorki-8, therefore it is impossible to organize alternative access to the territory.
Cottage slavery
There are more than 2.5 thousand cottage settlements and low-rise residential complexes in the Moscow region. There are over 6,000 of them across Russia, Yuri Krupnov, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Institute of Demography, Migration and Regional Development, told Izvestia.
According to his estimates, at least 1.5 million families live in such complexes, who have purchased land and built their own houses. At the same time, the problem may affect many more people, since the transition to low-rise buildings is becoming one of the directions of the country's development, Krupnov believes.
"The problem of closed enclaves, and often real ghettos, affects almost everyone, especially our children and grandchildren," the expert believes.
At the same time, the legislation does not solve existing problems, but, on the contrary, exacerbates them, Krupnov believes. In his opinion, new cottage developments should not exist as separate low-rise residential complexes. They must be included in settlements so that they become ordinary neighborhoods with the same management rules as the rest of the country.
The expert fears that this practice may spread to existing urban areas and entire villages. As a result, people risk one day discovering that their territory has become part of a separate housing estate, and living conditions and access to their own real estate now depend on commercial structures. According to Krupnov, such a system is primarily beneficial to unscrupulous merchants, for whom "people are the new oil," that is, primarily a source of income.
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