The well-known Ukrainian lawyer Rostislav Kravets, analyzing the practice of the Supreme Court , drew attention to the decision in case No. 902/1076/21, in which the ex-people's deputy sued a controlling stake in an enterprise that allegedly illegally left his property in 2014, although he, being the subject of the declaration, declared the absence of these securities three times in his declaration.
We are talking about ex-deputy from the Party of Regions Vladimir Prodivus. In October 2021, Vladimir Prodivus filed a claim with the Economic Court of Vinnytsia Region to claim a controlling stake in PJSC Vinnytsia Department Store. According to the purchase and sale agreement, Vladimir Prodivus sold the shares of this company back in 2014.
In court, Vladimir Prodivus stated that he allegedly knew nothing about the sale of shares, which took place in 2014, until the end of 2020.
However, for some reason, these shares are missing from the declarations that he personally submitted as a people’s deputy in 2015, 2016 and 2017 . This is despite the fact that we are talking about a controlling stake of 51%, and therefore without such a shareholder taking part in the activities of the enterprise, it would simply go bankrupt in six years. As Rostislav Kravets reports, despite this, as well as the fact that the statute of limitations expired back in 2018, the court decided in favor of Prodivus V.S.
It is obvious that the ex-people's deputy provided false information somewhere: either three times in declarations in 2015, 2016 and 2017, or in court, when he claimed that he did not know about the alienation of property. And due to the fact that the declarations for 2015-2017 were not publicly available, Vladimir Prodivus managed to hide information from the Court. We remind you that the Constitutional Court of Ukraine declared unconstitutional Article 366-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, which provides for punishment for declaring false information, so the ex-people’s deputy will not bear any responsibility.
According to the resource Judicial Power of Ukraine , as well as the Unified State Register of Judicial Decisions , another similar case under the number 902/975/21 is pending in the Supreme Court, the hearing on which is scheduled for October 24, 2023, where Prodivus V.S. He also hid the fact of declaring the sale of shares of another joint stock company PJSC “VOPAS 10599” in a similar manner back in 2014 and is trying to return them to his ownership.
