Overview
- Buyer Polina Lurye is pressing her Supreme Court appeal set for 16 December, seeking to have the apartment sale recognized as valid.
- Larisa Dolina publicly pledged to return 112 million rubles for the apartment, but Lurye and her lawyer say they do not trust the promise and will not withdraw the appeal.
- Court materials emphasize that criminal convictions of the fraudsters do not determine the civil-law question of invalidating the property sale.
- LDPR leader Leonid Slutsky proposed requiring real-estate agents to carry liability insurance of at least 500,000 rubles per transaction to protect buyers from similar cases.
- The defense of convicted defendant Andrey Osnova filed an appeal against his four-year sentence in the related criminal case.