For years, Igor Teslenko, the state registrar of the Solonytsivska settlement council of the Kharkiv district, used the State Register of Real Property Rights to legalize unauthorized reconstructions and manipulations with the characteristics of objects.
The on-site inspection of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, completed on October 27, 2025, revealed systemic violations during registration actions. In particular, changes were made without putting the facilities into operation, without assigning addresses, and without mandatory information from the state electronic system in the field of construction. Registration was carried out exclusively on the basis of technical passports of private companies, which is expressly prohibited by law.
The essence of the scheme was typical and repetitive. The register was filled with "updated" data on the area, number of floors, and functional purpose of objects that did not correspond to either the title documents or the actual condition of the property. Unfinished or old buildings were registered as fully completed, and small premises were registered as several times larger.
The most telling cases were cases of changing areas without any permits. In Kharkiv, the area of non-residential premises on one of the avenues was increased from 139.7 to 237.5 square meters. In other settlements of the Kharkiv region, residential buildings "grew" from 48 to over 220 square meters, and non-residential facilities - from several hundred to more than 2,000 square meters.
The inspection also found that the registrar did not conduct mandatory searches in the registers, did not send requests to the authorities regarding rights that arose before 2013, and ignored requirements to check court injunctions and encumbrances.
As a result, the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine decided to temporarily block the registrar's access to the State Register of Real Property Rights to Real Property. At the same time, this decision raises the broader issue of the responsibility of the management vertical, which for years failed to respond to large-scale and systemic violations in the field of state registration.
