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Notorious developer Vlada Molchanova again in the DBR spotlight
The State Bureau of Investigation is again investigating a criminal proceeding on the possible appropriation and embezzlement of state property as a result of unauthorized actions by officials of the State Enterprise “Research and Production Agro-Combine ‘Pushcha-Vodytsia’” and officials of Stolitsa Group LLC.
This is evidenced by data from the Single Register of Court Decisions.
This concerns criminal proceeding No. 12019000000001057, which was opened 12.11.2019 by the Main Investigation Department of the National Police of Ukraine under part 2 of article 364 (abuse of power or official position) and part 5 of article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (misappropriation, embezzlement of property, or seizure of it through abuse of official position).
According to the investigation, officials of the Stolitsa group of companies, acting in prior conspiracy with the management of SE “NDVA ‘Pushcha-Vodytsia’” and officials of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, since 2008 have been implementing a criminal scheme to terminate the right of permanent use of the agro-combine’s land plots in the Podilskyi district of Kyiv with an area of 286 hectares.
In May 2020, by a prosecutor’s order the investigation of this proceeding was reassigned from the National Police to investigators of the DBR. 16.02.2021 by an order of a DBR investigator the said proceeding was closed – for lack of corpus delicti and due to the existence of an uncancelled order closing proceeding No. 12131100 with facts.
At the same time, in 2 December the state register included rulings of an investigating judge granting the investigative team of the Main Investigation Department of the DBR in proceeding No. 12019000000001057 permission to inspect land plots totaling 242 hectares and all objects of unfinished construction:
plot with an area of 44,0615 ha with cadastral number 8000000000:91:066:0096
plot with an area of 7,9883 ha with cadastral number 8000000000:85:227:0300
plot with an area of 55,2225 ha with cadastral number 8000000000:91:066:0102
plot with an area of 25,042 ha with cadastral number 800000000:91:066:0091
plot with an area of 80,2877 ha with cadastral number 8000000000:91:066:0097
plot with an area of 29,7449 ha with cadastral number 8000000000:78:137:0010
These rulings state that, according to the investigation, officials of SE “NDVA ‘Pushcha-Vodytsia’” and the Ministry of Agrarian Policy acted in collusion with a group of officials of the Association “Stolitsa Group,” namely: Citybudservice LLC, Oliver-Bud LLC, Martyn LLC, Kashtanove Misto LLC, Concord-DS Plus LLC, Datolit LLC, Proektinveststroy LLC and Interproject LLC, with the aim of obtaining undue benefit—by entering into investment agreements they implemented a mechanism for alienating agricultural land and property rights to it, which caused serious consequences to state interests.
Oversight of compliance with the law during the pre-trial investigation in the said proceeding is exercised by the Office of the Prosecutor General.
Plots with areas of 44 ha, 7,9 ha, 55 ha, 25 ha and 80 ha within Pravdy Avenue, Ivan Vyhovskyi Street, Pivnichno-Syretska Street
According to lun.ua, these plots are being developed as the Warsaw residential microdistrict, Warsaw Plus Residential Complex and Warsaw-2 Residential Complex (projects from Stolitsa Group), Krister Grad Residential Complex (project from DSK-Zhytlobud), Dibrova Park Residential Complex (project from IB Alliance, the plot of 55 ha where this complex was built appears in documents leaked from Denys Komarnytskyi’s computer), “7 Quarter” Residential Complex and “V Quarter” Residential Complex (projects from Perfect Group of MP from OPZZh Dmytro Isaienko).
Another plot of 29,74 ha is located separately. Thanks to a Kyiv City Council decision of 10 June 2021, which approved the Detailed Plan of the Territory, development of this plot into a new residential complex became possible. On 13 January this year, the Kyiv City State Administration issued the starting data for this residential complex, despite significant resistance from local residents and Mayor Vitali Klitschko’s promises not to allow development. The investor in the development of the said DPT is Datolit LLC, which is connected to Stolitsa Group.
The owners of Stolitsa Group LLC (Stolitsa Group) are the Cyprus company Elakol Developments Limited (89%) and Business-Garant Asset Management LLC, acting in the interests of the Crown investment fund (11%). The ultimate owners of Elakol are Lithuanian citizens Raimondas Tumėnas, Agnė Ruzgienė and Marina Pozniakova and Kyiv resident Ivan Molchanov, son of Vladyslava Molchanova — a sponsor of the Batkivshchyna party. In 2016–2018 years Molchanova herself was among the beneficiaries of Stolitsa Group. According to Ekonomichna Pravda, Molchanova continues to make key decisions in the company.
The Association “Stolitsa Group” includes ISK Stolitsa LLC, Stolitsa LLC, Citybudservice LLC and Martyn LLC.
REFERENCE
As of March 2020, National Police investigators, in motions to the court, cited the following information regarding criminal proceeding No. 1201900000001057 dated 12.11.2019.
According to the investigation, officials of SE “NDVA ‘Pushcha-Vodytsia’” and the Ministry of Agrarian Policy
first signed investment agreements, after which they renounced permanent use of the specified plots and unlawfully alienated state property,
and subsequently concluded supplementary agreements to the investment agreements, refusing to receive the corresponding areas of housing and non-residential premises in the construction projects, in exchange for receiving 4–5% of the value of the plots at the time of their transfer for development.
The investigation indicated that such an exchange is disproportionate, taking into account the ratio of the value of the said plots and the appraisal of the objects at the time of concluding the investment agreements, and the value of the residential and non-residential development that has been and continues to be carried out on the said plots.
This refers to investment agreements with Martyn LLC, Concord-DS Plus LLC, Kashtanove Misto LLC, Proektinveststroy LLC, Datolit LLC, Oliver-Stroy LLC, Interproject LLC, Citybudservice LLC.
According to criminal proceeding No. 42016100000000922 dated 28.09.2016, which was investigated by the investigative department of the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office, as a result of the investment agreements concluded in 2008–2015, the state enterprise received at least 380 million UAH less. The state enterprise received in 2015 (5% in the construction project) at a price at which the developers sell apartments (470 million UAH).
In connection with the development of Pushcha-Vodytsia lands, criminal proceeding No. 42020101070000078 dated 24.03.2020 was also mentioned, investigated by detectives of the Podilskyi Police Department of the Kyiv City Main Department of the National Police and closed 23.04.2021.
Iryna Sharpinska, Nashi Hroshi
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