On December 7, 2017, at 14:00, the Sestroretsky District Court of St. Petersburg will begin consideration of a lawsuit filed by the prosecutor’s office aimed at removing a large real estate complex in St. Petersburg from the “Watchtower Society, Bibles and Treatises of Pennsylvania” foreign organization.

We are talking about 14 buildings with an area of ​​33 thousand square meters, located on 10 hectares of landscaped territory in the village of Solnechnoye Resort area of ​​St. Petersburg. This complex has been openly owned since 2000 by the “Watchtower Society” – an association operating since 1884, serving the interests of Jehovah’s Witnesses all over the world.

 

 

The Russian Federation did not finance the construction of the complex. The abandoned pioneer camp was acquired on a commercial basis by Jehovah’s Witnesses from one of the Russian enterprises. The ownership of this complex belonging to the Watchtower Society was officially registered by the authorized bodies of the Russian Federation and for 17 years it was not disputed by anyone. For these years, the “Watchtower Society” as the owner of the real estate transferred tens of millions of rubles to the Russian budget in the form of taxes.

Contrary to official statements on the inviolability of private property in the Russian Federation, the prosecutor’s office by its actions damages the country’s business reputation. No one can feel protected in a state in which the property rights of even foreign associations on an international scale are openly violated.

A hearing chaired by Judge Bogdanova NL will be held on December 7 at 14:00 in the Sestroretsk District Court at the address: Sestroretsk, ul. Volodarsky, 41.

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