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Two former officials of the StateGeoCadastre are accused of appropriating 160 hectares of land of a state enterprise
Prosecutors of the Office of the Prosecutor General 3 August 2026 sent to the Chechelivskyi District Court of the city of Dnipro an indictment against the former head of the Main Department of the StateGeoCadastre of one of the regions and the former head of a department of that same administration.
According to the investigation, during 2020–2021 years they, acting in collusion with the former director of the state enterprise, illegally reduced the area of the enterprise’s land by more than 160 hectares during a land inventory.
Subsequently, these lands were divided into separate plots and, through persons under their control, registered outside the state enterprise. As a result of these actions, the state suffered property damage of almost 17 million UAH.
The former officials are charged with appropriation of property by abusing official position, including on an especially large scale (part 3, 4, 5 of article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
Pursuant to article 62 of the Constitution of Ukraine, a person is presumed innocent until their guilt is proven by a guilty verdict of the court.