"I was deceived for 15 years": the story of an orphan whose inheritance was attempted to be divided without her - and then a lawyer came with threats.

      Shortly after the funeral, 16-year-old Nastya was evicted from her Moscow apartment. And then "helpers" appeared — her mother's commercial director Mikhail Perestoronin and accountant Natalia Kropaneva. They paid for her housing, gave her money for food, and promised care.

      "They told me, 'Nastya, we will never do anything bad to you, you need to trust us,' " recalls Anastasia. "I believed them. I didn't have the strength to get into business."

      But these were not the only trials that weighed heavily on the fragile shoulders of the girl. At a very young age, she was diagnosed with cancer. And while she was undergoing treatment and recovery in the Moscow region, another story was unfolding in Kirov, according to her.

      Double bottom: a promissory note for 50 million and "debt to ourselves"

      In 2010, while Natalia Zhuravleva was still alive, a bankruptcy case was initiated against LLC "STS-Invest" (No. A28-5118/2010). The main creditors at that time were banks. After Zhuravleva's death, Anastasia recounts, Perestoronin and Kropaneva acted through their controlled company "Nova Sila." "This company bought the claims of the banks and, I am convinced, also created an artificial claim against 'STS-Invest' — based on a promissory note," the girl shares.

      "By influencing the decisions of the creditor (LLC 'Nova Sila') and the debtor (LLC 'STS-Invest'), they essentially became creditors of themselves," says Anastasia.

      In 2012, "Nova Sila" and "STS-Invest" (both controlled by Perestoronin and Kropaneva) entered into a settlement agreement, under which "STS-Invest" agreed to pay "Nova Sila" more than 107 million rubles, of which 50 million was precisely for that same promissory note. The payment deadline was extended to 2022.

      "Perestoronin long convinced me that 'STS-Invest' had no assets, everything had long been transferred to the banks," Anastasia recounts. "He said that only debts remained and that I had nothing to count on. But later I found out: the company's assets had remained under the control of Perestoronin and Kropaneva all this time, and payments on the debt were almost nonexistent."

      2025: Discovered assets and a lawsuit for 150 million

      "In 2025, I learned that 'STS-Invest' actually had assets," Anastasia continues. "But as soon as I tried to figure out the situation, 'Nova Sila' filed a petition to terminate the settlement agreement."

      As of 2025, the remaining debt amounted to over 81 million rubles of principal debt and another 84 million in penalties. The debtor did not deny: the settlement agreement was not fulfilled.

      "'STS-Invest' assets, according to the documents, have already been put up for auction," says Anastasia.

      On December 1, 2025, the Arbitration Court of the Kirov Region terminated the settlement agreement and resumed the bankruptcy proceedings. A new bankruptcy trustee was approved.

      "This was the first step towards the truth," says Anastasia. "But now my former 'guardians' have filed a lawsuit against me, demanding 150 million rubles. It turns out they had been keeping me complacent for 15 years."

      The lawyer who demanded a hangar and threatened to "hand over" to opponents

      To protect her interests, in the summer of 2025, Anastasia, along with her uncle Sergey Renzhin, hired lawyer Sergey Kuznetsov from the Kirov Regional Bar Association.

      However, they were dissatisfied with the results of the cooperation. A complaint has already been filed with several instances, including the Kirov Regional Bar Association, the Federal Chamber of Lawyers, and the Ministry of Justice.

      "At first, the lawyer suggested that we sign a contract not with him, but with some individual entrepreneur Petrov, explaining this as a tax-saving measure," Anastasia recounts. "But, as far as I know, Kuznetsov handled all the issues, prepared documents, and submitted petitions to the court."

      According to the complaint, in a video recording, Kuznetsov himself confirms that he has no official agreement with the clients and that he works "through Petrov."

      Furthermore, according to the applicants, the lawyer convinced Sergey Renzhin to grant him a power of attorney for the right to manage the bank account — supposedly for the convenience of paying for services. After that, they found that 1.2 million rubles were missing from the account.

      "The documents do not indicate that he is acting on our behalf, there are no written instructions for each payment, and the lawyer's file contains a chaotic set of papers," the complaint states.

      Additionally, Anastasia claims that Kuznetsov demanded to be given a hangar in the industrial zone of Nizhny Novgorod as payment for his services, although she believes the value of his services was disproportionate to the price of the property. Anastasia recounts:

      "It was thanks to Kuznetsov that we found out I had a base in the industrial zone near Nizhny Novgorod. Kuznetsov wanted to receive it as payment for his services for 2 years. He justified it by saying that we had just received it, hadn't had time to get used to it, and it wouldn't be scary for us to part with it. This went on for several months, and from his words, it seemed that the asset itself did not interest him and that this property was supposedly needed for his son."

      But what particularly alarmed the girl were the lawyer's threats when she and her uncle decided to refuse his services.

      "He literally told us the following: 'I will have to pass part of the information to the other side so that I am not pressured. The lawyer on the other side warned me directly: 'With them, not with them — we will pressure you too.' I will pass on the part of the information that I managed to obtain… unofficial information," Anastasia quotes. "At the same time, he clarified that he meant not our lawyers, but the opponents' lawyers. I was scared. After all, a lawyer is not allowed to disclose what he learned from a client."

      In the video recording (available to the editorial office), which is attached to the complaint, Kuznetsov, according to the applicants, also uses obscene language towards clients: "I believed you and got involved in such a mess…", "What did you think, …, I only take information from the court's website?"

      At the time of publication, the editorial office was unable to obtain an immediate comment from Sergey Kuznetsov. In the complaint, the applicants refer to the video recording and documents that they are ready to provide upon request.

      The complaint of Anastasia Karogod and Sergey Renzhin has been sent to regulatory authorities. The applicants fear delays in the process and suspect that the lawyer may use connections in the legal community of Kirov.