A private company has entered the battle for dozens of hectares of land belonging to the National Museum of Architecture and Rural Life. The Kyiv City Council had handed over the land, worth 100 million hryvnias, to private owners during the time of Leonid Chernovetskyi, though the prosecutor's office later returned it to the city council. The change in government gave hope to the businessmen: in 2014, a new round of legal battles over the valuable land began.
Three years ago, the Prosecutor General's Office succeeded in overturning Kyiv City Council decisions to allocate specially protected areas of the State Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine (Pirohovo Open-Air Museum) to several little-known companies.
Following a lawsuit filed by the prosecutor's office, the courts invalidated the city authorities' decisions of October 1, 2007, to transfer land plots on Akademika Zabolotnoho Street in Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district to the Tarasovets service cooperative and the companies Charivne Mistechko and Charivny Krai. The title deeds for the 19-hectare plot (valued at UAH 48 million according to the standard monetary valuation) and the 24-hectare plot (valued at UAH 54 million) were annulled.
However, in June 2014, one of these firms, Charivniy Kray LLC, filed a petition to review the court decisions based on newly discovered circumstances.
Charivny Kray explained that seven years ago, an agreement was signed between the Khotovsky agro-industrial complex and the Tarasovets service cooperative for the comprehensive development of most of these territories. Charivny Kray allegedly was unaware of these plans. As the company's managers claimed in court, they only learned of this in May 2014, when they received a letter demanding assistance in restoring land rights.
The Kyiv Commercial Court of Appeal did not recognize this fact as a "newly discovered circumstance." The appeal was dismissed.
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