Lands of “agricultural scientists” to be auctioned in August - debts of some state-owned enterprises of the National Academy of Sciences have reached millions
Kyiv • UNN
The lands to be auctioned were previously used by the National Agrarian Academy. The latter, in turn, inherited the “national wealth” from Soviet collective farms.
Ukraine's land is being sold off. The State Property Fund is preparing the first 100 thousand hectares for auction. This was announced by the head of the Prozorro.Sale project department Oleksandr Lykhotop during AGRO INVEST DAY 2024, UNN reports .
According to Lykhotop, this will revitalize the market, as farmers and large agricultural holdings have already shown interest. The land to be auctioned was previously used by the National Agrarian Academy. They, in turn, inherited the "national wealth" from Soviet collective farms. All this time, the land has been circulating in the gray schemes of the National Academy, enriching officials and employees of the Academy itself.
One of these state-owned enterprises of the National Academy of Sciences that was subject to transfer to the State Property Fund is the State Farm "Nadiya". Despite the NAAS's claims that Nadiya's land has never been leased, it turned out that quite recently almost all of their land was transferred to a private company for sunflower cultivation.
In addition, state-owned enterprise owes the budget more than UAH 2.2 million.
Nadiia Agrofirma is also known for trying to take away land from more than a thousand ATO veterans with the assistance of NABU. The latter privatized land in Sumy region, but Nadiia believes that the land belonged to them. There are currently no legal grounds to believe that the ATO soldiers' land is related to the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences, the Supreme Court ruled.
However, the NABU and the SAPO declared their readiness to interrogate the country's defenders.
The confrontation between the NABU, the SAPO and the ATO is part of a criminal proceeding involving former Minister Mykola Solsky. Prior to his civil service position, he worked as a lawyer and, in particular, helped to ensure that ATO soldiers received land plots.