NABU sharply criticizes “significant scientific achievements” of NAAS
Kyiv • UNN
NABU detective Viktor Yarema spoke about corruption schemes in state-owned enterprises of the National Academy of Sciences with land plots. However, in the case against former Minister Solsky, NABU relies on a dubious Soviet document.
Senior detective of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine Viktor Yarema criticized the "significant scientific achievements" of the National Agrarian Academy and told how the academy's state-owned enterprises actually make money on "gray schemes." He said this in the podcast "Corruption vs NABU", UNN reports.
"The National Academy of Agrarian Sciences is a huge problem, and they are starting to take away land from it because it is a super inefficient story. Have you heard about any scientific achievements?" - Yarema said.
The detective said that often state-owned enterprises of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences, which manage significant land resources - from 3 to 5 thousand hectares of land - actually earn money by renting out land plots in the "shadow lease".
"You go there, to the place (where the land of one of the state enterprises of the National Academy of Sciences is located - ed.), and there is no normal staff, only four people work there. They cultivate it through shadow schemes. Some big agrarian comes in and the scheme is very simple... for example, you are a private enterprise, you have 5 hectares of land, I come to you and say, let me cultivate it, provide cultivation services. I provide services, and you form a certain debt to me, and it is logical that a large pile of crops grows, which is very expensive, but instead of properly accounting for it and selling it to pay me off and make a profit, we take part of the crop and simply export it without accounting through a fictitious company, and then we share it. In fact, we underestimate the yield," Yarema explained.
Another equally important problem is the situation when NAAS enterprises have not formalized land documents for decades, and this was most likely due to the fact that they pursued their own selfish goals of illegal use of "gray" land.
However, in one of the NABU's cases, concerning a dispute over land between ATO participants and state-owned enterprises of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences, the bureau took an unexpected position. Instead of protecting the ATO participants, they sided with state-owned enterprises that, without legal rights and documents, want to take away land from combatants. This case also involves former Minister of Agrarian Policy Mykola Solsky, who, as a lawyer, helped ATO participants in land registration before his positions in government agencies.
It is interesting that NABU in its accusations against Solsky relies on a copy of a Soviet Union document drawn with a ballpoint pen, the original of which no one has seen - neither local authoritiesnor the National Academy of Sciences, nor even the anti-corruption activists themselves .
It is this document that NABU detectives and SAPO prosecutors refer to in court as evidence that the state-owned enterprise Iskra had the right to use the land of the "Stalin's artel" for life, which was privatized by the ATO soldiers instead. This may indicate a weak evidence base and unclear prospects in court for the SAPO prosecutor.
