{
  "id": 328406,
  "title": "Scammed into selling her apartment, Moscow woman sets it on fire as bailiffs arrive to evict her",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/06/scammed-into-selling-her-apartment-moscow-woman-sets-it-on-fire-as",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-06T13:26:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Meduza (English)",
    "slug": "meduza-english",
    "url": "https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/06/scammed-into-selling-her-apartment-and-handing-over-the-proceeds-moscow-woman-sets-it-on-fire-as-bailiffs-arrive-to-evict-her"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A 68-year-old woman in Moscow set her apartment ablaze on August 5, 2026, as bailiffs arrived to evict her, according to news outlet Msk1. Natalia Ivanova, the woman in question, sold her two-room apartment for 9.5 million rubles in 2022 and subsequently transferred the money to scammers, never moving out. A court ruling in 2026 ordered her eviction, and she was scheduled to be removed from her home that day. Video footage shows bailiffs and others standing outside as Ivanova informs them of her inability to move her belongings and lack of funds. She then sprayed a substance and ignited her apartment. Ivanova was taken to the Sklifosovsky Institute, where she sustained burns covering 70% of her body. Russian security services reported that she had been detained in October 2022 for throwing a Molotov cocktail at a draft office, claiming at the time that she believed she was acting in the interest of the state. Scammers had been calling her since September 1, 2022, impersonating officers from the Federal Security Service and central bank, convincing her to give them her savings and the proceeds from her apartment sale. In 2025, a court sentenced her to a two-year suspended prison term under Russia's criminal statute against hooliganism.",
  "summary": "A 68-year-old woman in Moscow’s Babushkinsky district set fire to her apartment as bailiffs arrived to evict her, the news outlet Msk1 reported.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}