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Former Kyiv region police deputy’s suspicion in gas station property "seizure" canceled
The Kyiv Court of Appeal canceled the notice of suspicion for abuse of official authority that caused grave consequences (part 3 of art. 365 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) against the former deputy chief of police of Kyiv region — former head of the regional investigative department Serhiy Rekun.
The relevant decision was made on 23 December 2020 by a panel of the bench consisting of reporting judge Viktor Hlynianyi and participating judges Oleh Prysyazhnyuk and Ihor Palenyk.
"We expect lawful decisions from the prosecutors of the Office of the Prosecutor General and investigators of the SBU’s Investigative Service regarding the closure of the criminal case," reads the entry on the page of the law firm "Kononenko, Kailo and Partners," whose representatives are handling Lieutenant Colonel Rekun’s defense.
Recall that Serhiy Serhiyovych was notified of suspicion two weeks after the scandalous shooting incident that two groups of well-born men provoked on the evening of 2 September 2020 near the De Boche café in the town of Ukrainka, Kyiv region.
Because of the public outcry over this event, an inspection of the law enforcement officers’ actions was ordered, as they were accused of "protecting" one side of the conflict. As for Rekun, he was transferred from the position of head of the investigative department — deputy head of Kyiv region police — to an equivalent post in Khmelnytskyi region.
On 15 September 2020 Lieutenant Colonel was notified of suspicion of abuse of power that led to the "seizure" of a gas station’s property in Kyiv region. On 23 September 2020 the Pecherskyi District Court of Kyiv denied the investigators’ motions to suspend the lieutenant colonel from work and to impose a preventive measure in the form of house arrest, finding the suspicion against Rekun unsubstantiated. Nevertheless, on 11 December the investigation in his case was extended until 15 February 2021.
As previously noted on the pages of Detective-Info, Rekun is accused of involvement in the disappearance of property earlier seized by law enforcement from the company Autocomplex "Anastasia" in the fall of 2017. At that time, during the investigation of a factual criminal case concerning the operation of vehicle gas refueling stations in Kyiv region without permit documents, the "cops" carried out inspections at six locations of Anastasia’s AGZP in Bila Tserkva, where they seized several tons of diesel fuel, liquefied gas, coupons and even the gas refueling complex itself.
Subsequently this property, which the owner valued in total at 7 million hryvnias, was transferred for safekeeping without the right to use to VIKOS YUG LLC on the basis of an agreement concluded between that company’s director Oleksandr Huliyev and the then deputy chief of Kyiv region police Vasyl Teteria (now — Deputy Head of the NPU).
(Vasyl Teteria)
However, when in May 2019 investigators issued a resolution to return the seized Anastasia property, it turned out that it was totally absent or incomplete.
On this fact in the summer of 2019 a criminal case was opened on the basis of a report by the head of the Main Investigation Department of the National Police, Dmytro But, within the framework of which a grandiose fraud surfaced. In particular, court registry materials indicate that employees of the Department of Internal Security of the National Police established an organized criminal group that from 2015 to 2017 years "systematically appropriated others’ property by concluding custody agreements with legal entities," i.e., simply "disposing of" seized evidence for profit.
Investigators checked a number of individuals for possible involvement in this group. According to Detective-Info sources, half of them are former/active law enforcement officers, and the other part are closely associated with the company VIKOS YUG. However, none of them were officially notified of suspicion. Moreover — even after the scandal and the exposure of the criminal scheme in Kyiv region, this firm did not cease its activities.
On the contrary, in the fall of 2019 the company "showed up" in Mykolaiv region — in southern Ukraine VIKOS YUG LLC, despite a number of suspicions of being fictitious, began receiving, for "safekeeping," fuel seized by fiscal authorities during investigative actions.
Be that as it may, on 9 December 2020 investigative judge Ivan Bandura of the Sviatoshynskyi District Court of Kyiv extended the investigation period in the case concerning the "seizure" of previously confiscated property of Autocomplex "Anastasia" until 18 June 2021 (part 5 of art. 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, part 1 of art. 388 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
As for Serhiy Rekun’s possible involvement in the scheme to appropriate evidentiary property, he denies it. His lawyers argue in the lieutenant colonel’s defense that the organization and preparation for the seizure of Anastasia’s equipment allegedly had been completed before his appointment as deputy head of Kyiv region police, and there is no confirmation of his criminal collusion with subordinate investigators and the director of VIKOS YUG.
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