NABU has completed an investigation into the case against ex-minister of Agricultural Policy Mykola Solsky, after familiarizing the defense with the materials, it will be sent to the court for consideration on the merits. The ex-minister's lawyer Nazar Kulchitsky, in an exclusive comment to UNN, said that he had not yet seen the case materials, but was sure that there was no evidence of his client's guilt.
According to investigators, in 2017, Mykola Solsky, being the owner of a number of agricultural companies, in collusion with the chairman of Gosgeokadastr and curators of Gosgeokadastr bodies, decided to take possession of land that was used by two state-owned enterprises in Sumy region.
In order to implement the schemes, the participants secured the necessary documents, on the basis of which the powers of the state had the right to take advantage of the land, which became the basis for the folding of the state's charter of the act on the self-determination of the citizens of the States of the state. Abi unemotivites transferred the land from the side to the persons who included the ownership rights before the transfer to the auction, once the same auction was not held
Later, these lands were allegedly transferred to private ownership with the help of controlled officials of the regional state Geocadaster.
"At the same time, the land was transferred to pre - determined citizens under the guise of exercising their right to free land, and the condition for obtaining land was to sign an agreement on its lease to an agricultural holding even before receiving it," the NABU and SAPO claim.
According to law enforcement officers, this allowed the participants of the scheme to seize 1,250 land plots with a total area of 2,499 hectares in 2017-2021, the cost of which at the time of the crime was more than UAH 280 million. In addition, they allegedly attempted to seize 3,244 hectares of land worth about UAH 195 million.
The ex-minister's lawyer Nazar Kulchytsky said that the case materials had not yet been provided to them, and the anti-corruption officers completed the investigation, because they were afraid that in December the court would not extend their pre-trial investigation period.
There was no evidence of guilt. In fact, they did not collect anything, the suspicion was partially changed there, because they clarified some technical points. Both the first suspicion and the modified one are based solely on assumptions. What we have not yet seen in the case file itself, I am sure that there, roughly speaking, in addition to a large number of land management documentation, there is no data that can indicate the guilt of our clients in committing a crime
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We are talking about criminal proceedings, where NABU detectives and SAPO prosecutors accuse, in particular, ex-minister Mykola Solsky of organizing the seizure of land of the National Agrarian Academy in the Sumy region for transfer to the ATO military. According to detectives, these lands were allegedly used by state-owned enterprises of the Naas (Iskra and Nadezhda), and therefore could not be transferred to the ATO military.
In their arguments, although detectives and prosecutors refer to a copy of the State Act issued by the Stalin Artel, where the "Stalin Artel" is crossed out and the "Iskra" is written with a ballpoint pen, they themselves are skeptical of such evidence.
The original of this document was not seen at all in any State body - neither in the Naas, nor in the Institute of Agriculture of the North-East, neither in the state Geocadaster, nor in the Romensk state regional administration of the Sumy region (where the disputed lands are located).
Moreover, the Supreme Court and forensic examinations have already refuted the version of anti-corruption officials that these lands really had something to do with the naan.
At the same time, the detectives tried to conceal and cancel the examination ordered by the NABU in this case. There is a possibility that it could have testified to Solsky's innocence.
The ATO military themselves are outraged by such actions of the NABU and declared their readiness to prove the legality of their actions.