How the mother-in-law of Energoatom president bought a house worth almost UAH 7 million - investigation of "Schema"
Kyiv • UNN
The mother-in-law of MP Petro Kotin, who had no visible income, bought a house near Kyiv for almost UAH 7 million during the war, an investigation by Radio Liberty's Schemes project has revealed. Kotin said that her purchase was financed by family savings, cash from relatives and the expected sale of the property.
A two-storey house from Kyiv with a total area of 288 square meters with access to a private lake. was purchased by the 70-year-old mother-in-law of the president of the Energoatom energy generating company, Petro Kotin. The journalists of the Radio Liberty project "Schemes" found outthat the woman bought the property during the war for almost 7 million hryvnias, while not having her own income for such a purchase, UNN reports.
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The journalists of "Skhemy" found out that the owner of a residential building with a land land plot near Kyiv was acquired by the mother of Petro Kotin's wife in June of this year.
According to the document of purchase and sale of this real estate, which is at the disposal of the investigators, the house and the land under it cost Kotin's 70-year-old relative a total of almost 7 million hryvnias. In particular, the house itself cost 6 and a half million and the woman paid 350 thousand for the land.
At the same time, journalists found out that in the same village, there is a similar estate with a slightly larger area, but without access to water, was put up for sale this summer for 350 thousand dollars, which is more than 13 million. That is, twice as much as the price paid by Kotin's mother-in-law Kotin's mother-in-law paid for hers.
Today, Petro Kotin himself lives in this house with his family.
Journalists twice tried to record Petro Kotin's comments near "Energoatom regarding his mother-in-law's real estate, but he refused to speak on the record. Instead, Kotin gave Schemes a written response to their request.
The head of the state-owned enterprise named several sources of income that allowed his mother-in-law to purchase the property. According to Kotin, this includes the savings of the woman's family "for more than 50 years of labor activity"; cash belonging to her close relatives, who entrusted her to take it out of the occupied territories. territories, as well as borrowed funds in anticipation of the future sale of her property, that is currently under occupation.
According to her, the main reason she made this decision was the reasonable prices at which the previous owners offered the property for sale. the property for sale. At the time, these prices were in line with current market conditions, taking into taking into account the status and condition of the property.
The president of Energoatom also admitted: "I do visit this and I do not hide this information. I will indicate this information in my declaration, the deadline for which has not yet come"
