A scheme is unfolding in the territory of the Slavska settlement community of Lviv region, which has signs of a large-scale transfer of state lands — primarily the forestry fund — to private ownership. Under the guise of inventory and development of an investment project, a quiet deribanna operation is taking place, involving officials, businessmen, and representatives of state forestry structures.
In 2022, the State Enterprise "Slav Forestry" concluded contract No. 33 with LLC "Geoarch Project" to conduct an inventory of 3,000 hectares of forest land. On the surface, everything looked legal - technical documentation, approvals, geodata. But later these documents became evidence in criminal proceedings for official forgery and abuse of power. Some of the forest areas were artificially excluded from the state forest fund - in order to change their intended purpose.
Back in 2019-2020, at least 44.5 hectares of state land near the village of Volosyanka were withdrawn from the state lands. Formally, for the management of personal farms, in fact, for front persons. Later, these plots were re-registered as LLC "Slavsky" - a company associated with OKKO Group CEO Vitaliy Danylyak.
It is on these lands that the GORO Mountain Resort project is being prepared - a large-scale resort development focused on the VIP segment. The plots were combined, received cadastral numbers, and a package of documents was prepared for them to be transferred to the category of land for development.
The personnel element is no less significant. The change in the leadership of the Slavska community — the removal of head Volodymyr Bega and the appearance in his place of Oleg Danylyak, brother of Vitaliy Danylyak — took place synchronously with the active phase of project preparation for GORO Resort.
Geoarch Project LLC participated not only in the inventory, but also in the correction of cadastral data. This involved entering information that allowed some areas to be removed from the forest category and thus freed up the hands of developers.
Instead, the State Enterprise "Forests of Ukraine" and the "Carpathian Forest Office" continue to formally insist that they are acting exclusively within the limits of their authority as permanent users. Although the very fact of changing the boundaries, removing the land from the state forest fund, and preparing it for commercial development indicates otherwise.
Thus, under the guise of a beautiful signboard of “investment development of the region,” certain structures are implementing a plan to systematically withdraw valuable land from state ownership — with direct preferences for top management of big business.
