NABU serves notice of suspicion to Kyiv developer and former MP Ivanyushchenko

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau has served suspicion notices to Yuriy Ivanyushchenko , an influential MP from the time of Viktor Yanukovych, and a Kyiv real estate developer. The media outlets ZN.ua and Slovo i Dilo, citing their own sources, write that it is Vlada Molchanova (Stolitsa Group).

Ivaniushchenko's suspicion was published on the website of the Prosecutor General's Office, the circumstances of the case were also described by National Anti-Corruption Bureau and Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office .

The case concerns the land of the Stolychnyi agricultural market, located on the outskirts of Kyiv near the Teremky metro station.

Since 2012, the land plot of 157.42 hectares has been under a 25-year lease with Stolychnyi Agricultural Market LLC. The plot belonged to the category of residential and public land and was intended for the construction of market infrastructure.

The investigation believes that in the spring of 2021, a corporate conflict arose between Molchanova and Ivanyushchenko for control of the wholesale market, during which the ownership of the land plot was re-registered from the Kyiv-Svyatoshynskyi District State Administration to the Main Department of the State Geocadastre in Kyiv Oblast and leased to a company controlled by the developer.

In May of the same year, nine plots of 2 hectares each were separated from it, transferred to private ownership of nine individuals, and subsequently alienated to three legal entities related to the developer under sale and purchase agreements.

According to the NABU, in the process of resolving the conflict, the developer and the former MP signed a memorandum ("concept") on the joint use of the land, in particular for development. In September 2021, the trustee of the former MP became one of the beneficiaries of the companies that own the land plots.

Investigators were able to intercept correspondence between the alleged organizers of the scheme, in which the following words are found: "The capital is registering in the real estate register new plots allocated to individuals (nine plots totaling 18 hectares), as well as registering the land plot No. 3222486200:04:001:5595 with an area of 129.1826 hectares, which remains leased from Rynok.".

Further disposal of the land was stopped by the arrest imposed at the request of the SAPO prosecutors.

A former MP and two of his subordinates, a real estate developer and a person associated with her, as well as the former head of the regional department of the State Geocadastre of Ukraine were suspected under Part 5 of Article 191 (misappropriation of property) and Part 3 of Article 209 (legalization of property) of the Criminal Code.