Authorities Freeze Krasnoyarsk Woman's Accounts Over Namesake's Debt
Maria Leonenko from Krasnoyarsk had her accounts frozen over someone else«s debt of 2000 rubles (about $22 at current rates), she told NGS24.RU editors.
According to her, on November 20, a notification arrived in her personal account on the «Gosuslugi» government services portal that enforcement proceedings had been initiated against her on November 6 based on a court decision. On November 21, 2000 rubles (about $22 at current rates) were seized from her accounts, with copies of the documents held by the editors.
Maria Leonenko went to court on November 25 and asked to suspend the proceedings, as she knew nothing about them and had not received any prior notifications from the court. According to Maria, it turned out that her full namesake had taken a work loan from KrasZhD (Krasnoyarsk Railway, a subsidiary of Russian Railways, RZhD) and failed to repay the amount. According to the website of the magistrate courts, on July 29, a court order for recovery was issued against the debtor, and it came into force on August 13.
«I am a mother of many children, currently on maternity leave and not working because I have a young child. I have never worked for RZhD,» she explained to NGS24.RU.
Maria added that there was practically no money on her card. Because of this, the bailiffs seized and deducted not only funds from her personal card but also money from children«s bank cards, which are also registered in her name. After the deduction, the seizure was lifted.
In court, Maria also discovered that in the court documents, she and the debtor have matching not only names but almost all personal data: TIN (Taxpayer Identification Number), SNILS (pension insurance number), year of birth — except for the registered address. This clearly indicates an error, Maria says, as TIN and SNILS are unique numbers and cannot be identical for different individuals.
«The lawyer I consulted suggested that an error occurred and the data »was duplicated.« He also said that in court, this error would be quickly identified. Such incidents are rare, but most likely, when setting up the court case in the system, they found me instead of my full namesake, and located and used her address,» Maria says.
In the court office, they tried to convince Maria that such a thing was impossible:
«The girl in the office said that they never have cases where data is duplicated, and that this is definitely my debt. And that most likely, I lived at this address and just forgot. Well, yes, of course, I don»t remember where I lived. A bit surreal, for sure,« recalls Maria Leonenko.
On Friday, December 19, the woman plans to go to court again to sort out the situation; she hopes to get the deducted money back.
NGS24.RU will contact the press service of the bailiffs at the start of the working day.
Media outlets periodically report cases where people have non-existent debts deducted due to matching names or other data. For instance, NGS24.RU previously covered how bailiffs deducted 30,000 rubles (about $330 at current rates) from a Krasnoyarsk pensioner for a «double»s« debts.
