Illegal appropriation of forest in the Kyiv region: employees of the village council are suspected

In the Kyiv region, officials were exposed who illegally transferred forest park land worth 10 million hryvnia into private ownership.

This was reported by the National Police of Ukraine .

The investigator managed to find out those involved in the organized group. Among the defendants in the case are a former village chairman, a land surveyor, the head of the land commission and a land surveyor.

The former chairman of the village council, knowing that the plots were part of the forest fund and were not subject to alienation, included “land issues” on the agenda of the sessions. As a result, valuable lands, the value of which, according to preliminary estimates, is more than 10 million UAH, became the property of controlled persons.

During searches, employees of the National Police of Ukraine found evidence of a crime, namely: illegally executed documents on the allocation and resale of forests, correspondence in mobile phones.

Illegally allocated land plots from the forest fund were seized.

All participants in the case were charged with suspicion of abuse of power or official position as part of an organized group.

According to this article of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, the defendants in the case face up to six years in prison.