The Obukhiv District Prosecutor's Office in the Kyiv Region has opened a criminal investigation into abuse of office by officials of the Obukhiv District State Administration and the Land Resources Department during the transfer of 0,87 hectares of water-resource land in the village of Pidhirtsi to private ownership. This was reported in a statement by the Kyiv Region Prosecutor's Office press service, according to KievNews.
"It was established that the above-mentioned land plots, valued at over UAH 545, were allocated to individuals for private gardening at the expense of land in the coastal protective zone of the Blue Lake artificial reservoir," the statement reads.
A pre-trial investigation is currently underway under Part 2 of Article 364 (abuse of power or official position) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Furthermore, in March of this year, the regional prosecutor's office filed two lawsuits with the Obukhov City District Court demanding that executive orders and state land deeds be declared invalid and that land plots totaling almost 1 hectare be reclaimed by the state.
Earlier, the head of the press service for the Kyiv regional prosecutor's office, Anna Kishchak, reported on her Facebook page that these lands are currently owned by Yuriy Miroshnichenko, a former member of the Party of Regions faction and former representative of President Viktor Yanukovych in the Verkhovna Rada. Miroshnichenko became famous after his "cry" on Hromadske TV.
Miroshnichenko, however, declared income totaling just over 773 hryvnias in 2013. Journalists from the "Distalo!" program on the ІСTV channel previously filmed a report on the seizure and appropriation of the Blue Lake shore.
The scheme by which the seizure of the lakeshore was legalized is very simple. "In 2013, Blue Lake became a quarry, and it was this status that gave free rein to the invaders. If the lake is natural, then a hundred-meter zone is off-limits for construction, but if it's artificial, then there are no restrictions," reporters. Meanwhile, for five years, a member of parliament waged a war with local summer residents over the lakeshore, and even now refuses to cede.
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