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🌐 Former Odesa city council deputy from the Trust the Deeds party, Oleksandr Matvieiev, who is suspected of embezzling communal property worth more than 11 million UAH, was extradited to Ukraine.
As the regional prosecutor’s office reported, in 2011–2019 he organized a criminal group that used forged documents to appropriate real estate in the city center. Among the illegally obtained properties were premises, attics, apartments, a basement, and a plot of land.
Matvieiev was hiding from the investigation, was placed on the wanted list in 2024, and was detained in Romania in early September.
The court ordered pretrial detention with bail set at 600 thousand UAH. But the prosecutor’s office will appeal that decision and insist on bail of 11 million UAH.
Recall that the investigation previously established that when Matvieiev was a member of the city council’s municipal property commission, he devised a scheme to enrich himself illegally by registering ownership rights to real estate objects. He involved a lawyer and executors from among trusted associates to carry out the plan.
The accomplices looked for premises on the first and second floors, then leased them through public organizations, and later bought them under noncompetitive conditions. Some were converted into housing, and attics and basements were expanded and sold.
The Security Service of Ukraine also took an interest in Matvieiev in connection with the scheme to seize a real estate object in the city’s central area.
It is also known that the deputy’s penthouse was regularized using dubious registration schemes in the Graf residential complex in Otrada, Odesa.
Matvieiev was among the deputies that Trust the Deeds decided to recall in mid-August in order to replace them with others.
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