The Prosecutor General's Office has launched an investigation against former Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka into an attempt to seize Kornatskykh Agrofirm LLC and embezzle 50 million hryvnias, it reports. Prosecutor's Truth
Prosecutor General's Office spokesman Yuriy Boychenko announced this at a briefing, Ukrainska Pravda reports, citing Ukrainskie Novosti.
He stated that on August 18, the agency opened a pre-trial investigation into Pshonka's abuse of office. According to the Prosecutor General's Office, it was established that, together with his son, Party of Regions MP Artem Pshonka, he orchestrated, through the Prosecutor General's Office and other government agencies, a series of criminal proceedings and lawsuits against employees and the director of Agrofirma Kornatskikh.
Thus, Pshonka attempted to seize the enterprise's lands, valued at $200 million. An investigation has been opened under Part 2 of Article 364 (abuse of office or authority).
In addition, the Prosecutor General's Office has launched an investigation against Viktor and Artem Poshonka for the embezzlement of 50 million hryvnias, which were received by the public joint-stock company Bank-1 from the National Bank as a stabilization loan.
It was previously reported that on June 5, 2014, the Supreme Specialized Court for Civil and Criminal Cases upheld the cassation appeal of the prosecutor and defense attorneys for Lyudmila Nikitkina, the financial director and chief accountant of Agrofirma Kornatskikh, and overturned the decision of other courts against her.
By this decision, Nikitin was sentenced to three years' imprisonment with a two-year ban on holding positions that involve the performance of organizational and managerial duties and administrative and economic responsibilities.
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