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🔈 In Kharkiv, the housing cooperative Aviles, whose founders were Denys Paramonov, Lidiya Horobchenko, and Nataliya Paramonova, mortgaged land plots it had received from the city council for the construction of social housing. The circumstances of the land transfer and subsequent lending became the subject of a criminal proceeding, which was closed due to insufficient evidence of collusion between the cooperative’s representatives and city council officials.
24 in December 2008 the Kharkiv City Council granted Aviles a land plot free of charge with a total area of 1,62 ha. The basis for the decision was the cooperative’s request to receive land for the construction of social housing.
After receiving it, the plot was divided into nine separate land parcels, for which the cooperative obtained state deeds. Later, part of these lands became the subject of mortgage agreements with banking institutions.
In 2014 Aviles obtained a loan from Kredobank for $3 million. The obligations were secured, among other things, by the cooperative’s land plots and real estate. At the same time, the mortgage secured the loan obligations of Saltivskyi Myasokombinat LLC, the founders of which include members of the Paramonov family.
The following year the cooperative signed another mortgage agreement for 31,5 million UAH. The collateral again consisted of land plots that had earlier been received for housing construction. The agreement secured the obligations of Berdyanski Kovbasy LLC, of which Denys Paramonov is listed as a founder.
Separately, Aviles signed a mortgage agreement with Frontbank JSC for 37,7 million UAH. The cooperative’s land plots received for residential construction also served as security for the loan obligations. The guarantor of the obligations in this case was Saltivskyi Myasokombinat LLC.
Thus, the land received from the city was used as security for the obligations of enterprises connected to the Paramonov family. This concerns at least three credit operations with a total volume of obligations in the millions of dollars and tens of millions of hryvnias.
The circumstances of the use of the land plots were the basis for criminal proceeding No. 42018220000000584, registered on 15 May 2018. The investigation considered, among other things, possible appropriation of property and legalization of proceeds under Part Five of Article 191 and Part Two of Article 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
The case materials also concerned possible prior collusion between representatives of Aviles and officials of the Kharkiv City Council during the free transfer of the land plot. A key question for the investigation was whether an agreement to unlawfully seize the land existed already at the stage of its transfer to the cooperative.
In August 2019 the prosecutor issued a decision to close the criminal proceeding. The basis was insufficient evidence of prior collusion between the founders of Aviles and the leadership of the Kharkiv City Council to seize the land plot.
The closure of the proceeding means that within this criminal process a collusion between the cooperative’s representatives and city council officials was not proven. At the same time, the facts of the mortgage agreements and the use of the land as security for loan obligations are reflected in the court materials.
Denys Paramonov is known as an entrepreneur associated with the meat-processing business and the Cooker brand. Among the companies connected to his business circle is Saltivskyi Myasokombinat, which featured in Aviles’ loan operations. The connection between the cooperative and the Paramonov family’s commercial enterprises was one of the factors that drew the investigation’s attention to the use of the land received from the city.
In this story, the key remaining question is the intended use of the lands that the city council granted free of charge for a specific housing project. The criminal proceeding did not establish collusion with officials, but the court materials make it possible to trace the subsequent transfer of part of these assets as collateral for loans to commercial entities.
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