Former MP and traitor Andriy Derkach is suspected of misappropriating particularly valuable lands in Koncha-Zaspa with a total area of over 40 hectares. Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko announced that the former head of the Obukhiv District State Administration and two other participants in the criminal schemes have been notified of suspicion in the criminal proceedings regarding the misappropriation of property and money laundering, UNN reports.
The former Head of the Obukhiv District State Administration has been detained and notified of suspicion under Part 5 of Article 191, Part 3 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The other two participants in the scheme have been notified of a similar suspicion in absentia, as they are abroad, and measures are being taken to declare them internationally wanted.
The essence of the crime
Back in 2010, then-MP from the "Party of Regions," and now a Russian senator accused of treason in Ukraine, Andriy Derkach, set his sights on particularly valuable forest lands in the Koncha-Zaspa nature reserve on the banks of the Dnieper.
This refers to 23 plots of land with an area of 41.5 hectares, which at the time of the crime were valued at over UAH 595 million.
To appropriate them, the traitorous parliamentarian used his then-influence and conspired with the then-head of the Obukhiv District State Administration and the head of one of the local State Land Cadastre departments. The territory of the landscape reserve actually belonged to the city of Kyiv, but the participants in the scheme drew up documents as if the land was located within the neighboring village council of the Obukhiv district of the Kyiv region.
This allowed the head of the district administration to issue an illegal order to transfer the land into private ownership, bypassing the powers of the Kyiv City Council.
To implement the plan, the participants in the scheme involved 23 straw persons: drivers, security guards, and other personnel of the former MP. State acts on the allocation of land were issued to them, allegedly for personal farming.
Then, over eight years, the land was legalized through a series of fictitious resales, and the affiliated persons of the former deputy and the official of the District State Administration became the owners of the protected plots.
Along with the notification of suspicion to the former head of the Obukhiv District State Administration and two other individuals, a motion has been filed with the court for the arrest of the property of the suspects and their affiliated persons.