Cottages along the Kiev Dam: the founder of the investment company and three more OZG accomplices were detained for fraud (VIDEO)
In total, it consisted of more than two dozen people, where each had a clearly defined role. In November last year, eight members of this criminal organization were already suspected.
According to the investigation, the participants of the criminal organization turned the transaction and illegally seized the lands of the water fund on the territory of the left-bank protective dam “Cascade of Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plants and Gas Plants” (dams). It includes the founder of the investment company, his brother, developers, their trusted persons, employees of the regional department of the State Geocadastre and controlled persons.
More than 7 hectares of land in the water fund along the Kiev dam between the villages of Khotyanivka and Lebedivka were illegally alienated from state ownership and transferred free of charge to controlled persons, allegedly for gardening. Most of them were students of metropolitan educational institutions who were misled and agreed to the offer due to the difficult financial situation. They were searched through social networks and offered to sign papers for a reward.
Subsequently, the captured land on paper was resold to large developers, and they built cottage towns instead of gardens. Actually, it was at their behest that the intruders reversed the land transaction.
In order to avoid a long and complicated procedure for obtaining permits for the construction and commissioning of buildings, technical passports with fictitious data were obtained. According to the documents, the houses were built in an economic way in 1991. Such manipulations made it possible to register ownership of the building without obtaining the appropriate permits and approvals in the State Inspectorate of Architecture and Urban Planning of Ukraine.
On January 18, operatives of the Department of Strategic Investigations in the Kiev region of the National Police, together with the SBI and the Office of the Prosecutor General, detained the businessman and founder of the investment company during his attempt to cross the border of Ukraine with Poland. Law enforcement officers also detained his brother and two other accomplices.
In addition, procedural events were held in the offices of the company and at the places of residence of the defendants. The issue of notifying detainees of suspicion is resolved. The actions of the participants of the criminal organization are qualified for:
• Parts 1 and 2 of Art. 255 (creation, leadership of a criminal community or criminal organization, as well as participation in it);
• Art. 233 (illegal privatization of state and communal property);
• Article 209 (legalization (laundering) of property obtained by criminal means) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Persons involved in land fraud face a sentence of up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property.
National Police of Ukraine
