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Seizure of 947 land plots totaling more than 3,2 thousand ha and law enforcement cover-up: court obliged police to open an investigation in the Kharkiv region
✅ The Chuhuiv City Court of Kharkiv Region, by ruling No. 636/9808/26, instructed authorized officers of the Chuhuiv Police Department of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Kharkiv Region to enter information into the Unified Register of Pretrial Investigations based on our statement. This concerns circumstances of unlawful activity by representatives of law enforcement bodies in Chuhuiv district related to the appropriation of land plots, receiving illicit benefits, and evasion of tax control.
🔻 We established circumstances of a scheme to concentrate land assets in favor of Hennadiy #Дерека and Vitaliy Dereka with the assistance of law enforcement representatives. This concerns 947 land plots totaling 3 242,8053 ha located in the territory of Chuhuiv, Izium, and Zmiiv districts of Kharkiv region.
To register and subsequently utilize the land bank, a network of related legal entities was used, including the farms FG “SFG ‘DRUZHBA’”, FG “DRUZHBA INVEST”, LLC “INGVAR PLUS”, FG “DRUZHBA-AGRO”, LLC “SKHIDAGRO-M”, LLC “AGROTEKHNIKA SG” and other enterprises.
📌 Particular attention is drawn to the activities of law enforcement agencies and local government officials. Among the figures involved are the head of the Chuhuiv District Prosecutor’s Office #Коптєв Ya.Yu., representatives of the Chuhuiv interdistrict division of the Security Service of Ukraine, in particular the former head #Стрельніков Oleksiy, the head of the Chuhuiv Police Department of the Main Directorate of the National Police #Пономарьов S., the head of the Chuhuiv District Military Administration #Лободенко S.V., the head of the Malynivka settlement military administration #Семер’yanov M.I., and the elder of the Starohnylytsia starosta district #Дерека V.F.
Accordingly, official powers and administrative ties were used to pressure landowners, re-register property rights in favor of controlled business entities, and to ensure that involved persons were not held accountable.
🔻 Another area is public procurement by the Malynivka settlement council. According to analysis of the Prozorro system for the years 2025–2026, 49 procurements were identified that bypassed the electronic system for a total amount of about 2,42 million UAH. A significant portion of contracts were concluded at amounts close to the statutory thresholds. In addition, in a large share of competitive procurements the period for submitting tender proposals was only three calendar days. This indicates the creation of artificial advantages for certain participants and the restriction of competition in the distribution of budget funds.
We will continue to monitor the further course of the pretrial investigation. It is important to conduct a full investigation of all stated circumstances, to verify possible corrupt ties between law enforcement agencies, local authorities, and representatives of the agricultural business, to establish the real beneficiaries of the land bank totaling more than 3,2 thousand ha, and to bring those responsible to account, not merely to formally comply with the court ruling.
Materials on the topic:
▫️ How people in Chuhuiv district were turned into slaves who cultivated hectares for the local “little tsar”
▫️ Six deaths in Chuhuiv and total immunity of the “agrarian barons.” Who is covering up the tragedy?
▫️ Land bank of over 3,2 thousand ha, alleged pressure on farmers and a criminal proceeding: what is happening in Chuhuiv region?
▫️ How in Kharkiv region peasants are being squeezed and their land given to “handpicked” farmers
▫️ How regional and national leadership allow lands in frontline districts to be taken and given to their favored farmers and to shield them
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