23 April 2024, Tuesday, 13:26 379

NABU suspects Agricultural Policy Minister Solskyi of schemes to acquire state lands worth UAH 300 million

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The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) suspects the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, Mykola Solskyi, of expropriating state lands worth UAH 300 million and attempting to expropriate land worth another UAH 190 million.

NABU informed Ukrainian News Agency about this.

The criminal group led by Solskyi included officials of the State Service of Ukraine for geodesy, cartography and cadastre, as well as persons who controlled the activities of these agencies, the so-called curators.

The participants of the scheme ensured the destruction of documents on the basis of which two state-owned enterprises in the Sumy Region had the right to permanent use of land.

Due to their absence, the regional State Cadastre Service drew up an act on the arbitrary occupation of these plots.

Later, with the help of controlled officials of the regional State Cadastre Service, plots were transferred to the ownership of predetermined citizens under the guise of realizing their right to free land.

At the same time, the condition of obtaining land ownership was the signing of an agreement on its lease to a private agricultural holding even before the acquisition.

As a result of the implementation of the scheme in 2017-2021, the participants of the scheme took possession of 1,250 land plots with a total area of 2,493 hectares, the value of which at the time of the crime was more than UAH 291 million.

They also attempted to seize 3,282 hectares of land worth about UAH 190 million, but the NABU detectives and SACPO prosecutors conducted searches and seized these plots.

So far, the organizer of the scheme, the current minister, two curators of the State Cadastre Service bodies and the person who facilitated the commission of the crime have been served with suspicion.

Suspicions are being handed over to other participants in the criminal scheme.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, in 2023, Solskyi was able to settle the protracted grain scandal between the government of Ukraine and Poland.