Why, despite years of land scams, privatization of state property, and offshore schemes, is Suprunenko being tried only for an unpermitted construction?

Finally, former member of parliament from the Party of Regions and ally of Leonid Chernovetskyi Oleksandr Suprunenko will be tried for illegal seizure of land in the gardening association Priozerne. However, this episode is only the tip of the iceberg, because dozens of schemes that allowed Kyiv to lose hundreds of hectares of land, state property, and strategic assets still escape law enforcement attention. Together with his brother Vyacheslav Suprunenko, for years he built a system through which assets came under the control of connected structures, including municipal plots, state enterprises, and historic territories of the capital. The broadest scope of this activity was achieved during Vitali Klitschko's tenure, when land and construction schemes began to operate with renewed force.

One of the most resonant stories was the privatization of the state enterprise Elektronmash. In May 2023 year, the industrial complex of the plant was purchased by LLC Incom Rent, the charter capital of which amounted to only 1 000 hryvnias. After privatization, the enterprise, which was supposed to remain for industrial purposes, began to be prepared for demolition, and the territory totaling over 13 hectares — for construction of 25–30 multi-story residential buildings.

Parallel to this, the territory was also brought under the control of connected structures. Through LLC MFK Good Life, lease of 1,4 hectares of land near the national significance Kyiv Fortress was obtained, after which the development project was expanded to over two hectares. Issued urban planning conditions provided for the construction of buildings up to 73 meters tall, practically next to Tower No. 5 of the Kyiv Fortress, which caused significant public resonance.

A separate line were schemes for seizing municipal property and land. This concerns the illegal alienation of premises on Bohdan Khmelnytsky Street, 3-A, the removal from municipal ownership of the children's camp Promin, the registration of lands through so-called toilet schemes, and transfer of three plots near Khreshchatyk totaling 0,52 hectares to the British company Goldenberg Assets LTD. The use of offshore jurisdictions and repeated resales created additional obstacles to returning assets to the Kyiv community.

At the same time, the scale of activity covered not only the land sector. Among the episodes are also financial operations through JSC Asvio Bank, as well as the activities of ALTeg LLC and Braz LLC. During investigative actions, law enforcement recorded possible underpayment of real estate tax by 8,9 million UAH, VAT by 23,5 million UAH, detected unaccounted scrap metal worth 39 million UAH and other unaccounted goods totaling over 286 million UAH.

The Suprunenko family’s activities are not a revelation; for years they have been seizing lands and municipal property, conducting schemes with underreporting of property tax. And it is precisely after our complaint that an indictment against Oleksandr Suprunenko for illegal construction within the coastal protection zone of the Dnipro River was finally sent, but where have all the schemes we exposed in the complaint and statement gone? Has everything else already been resolved, and to mislead the public at least someone was pursued for something?

As a reminder, we have already sent a complaint and reports about criminal offenses for illegal seizure of land in the water fund on the Dnipro embankment, illegal privatization of the Elektronmash state enterprise, development of the protection zone of the Kyiv Fortress national significance, illegal alienation of municipal property and the Promin camp, implementation of toilet schemes to seize capital city lands, use of offshore companies to hide rights to land assets, and therefore we take under control further court proceedings regarding Oleksandr Suprunenko. Because it seems Kyiv's law enforcement and the Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office under Khodakovskyi have already received thanks for the leaks.