NABU and SAP informed the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Mykola Solsky and others of the suspicion of taking over land worth UAH 291 million and attempting to take over plots worth another UAH 190 million.
The participants of the scheme ensured the destruction of documents on the basis of which two state-owned enterprises in Sumy Oblast had the right to permanent use of land. Due to their absence, the regional State Geocadastre drew up an act on the arbitrary occupation of these plots.
Later, with the help of controlled officials of the regional State Geocadastre, 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 moment of acquisition.
As a result of the implementation of the scheme in 2017-2021, the participants of the scheme acquired 1,250 land plots with a total area of 2,493 hectares, and also tried to acquire 3,282 hectares of land.
