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Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce Is Building Right Next to Holosiivskyi National Nature Park
In Kyiv, the vice president of the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Ukrainian CCI) is building two 24-story residential buildings right up against Holosiivskyi National Nature Park.
The land has been leased since 2005 by LLC MZHK Obolon. This company belongs to former head of the Obolon District State Administration Vasyl Antonov and his brother Oleksandr. In 2020 Member of Parliament Heorhiy Leros (non-affiliated) reported that Vasyl Antonov has close ties to the notorious businessman Denys Komarnytskyi, whom the public calls the “watcher of Kyiv.”
Garages demolished
The sublessee is LLC Holosiivski Vezhi. Part of the company, through BK Budharant Invest LLC, is owned by Chamber of Commerce vice president Rostyslav Korobka.
The construction of the high-rises is planned on the plot between buildings No. 9 and No. 11 on General Rodimtsev Street (8000000000:79:301:0013). The land’s designated use was changed illegally, and local garages were simply demolished.
Local residents believe that as a result of this construction neighboring buildings could be damaged. Carrying out this work is also risky because of the shallow groundwater. The developers are also dismantling a local architectural landmark – the water tower from 1955.
Former member of the public council at the State Environmental Inspection Mykhailo Makarenko wrote on his Facebook page that the construction works could damage neighboring residential buildings. The distance from the construction fence to the walls of the old buildings is less than 20 m, although a minimum of 50 is required! He also noted that the construction site has difficult geological conditions, including recorded shallow groundwater and quicksand.
Mysterious truck
The contractor for the illegal development was chosen as LLC Sitibud. At the end of September a KAMAZ truck bearing Armed Forces of Ukraine stickers and a National Guard pass on the windshield entered the site. Building materials were brought in on the vehicle and a fence was erected. Locals called the military prosecutor’s office to clarify the circumstances. However, when the military arrived the truck driver had disappeared. They could not remove the truck because they lacked the necessary resources and time. Later the truck went missing.
Varya says that after Holosiivski Vezhi put up the fence, the company seized a piece of the shared yard space of neighboring houses, the maintenance of which is paid for by those residents. Residents filed a complaint, so the temporary permit for violating land-improvement rules was suspended (it allows carrying out construction and land works that violate the city’s land-improvement, including erecting a fence).
Korobka’s company was registered in June 2021. The director is Viktor Horbay; the founders are BK Garant-Invest LLC (ultimate beneficiary – Kyiv resident Rostyslav Korobka) and KUA City Asset Management LLC (ultimate beneficiaries – Kyiv residents Vitalii Karpiuk and Kostiantyn Sharai), as well as Oleksandr Telefus, a resident of the village of Svydivok in Cherkasy region.
Loans
City Asset Management is a company that provides developers with construction financing services for residential real estate by attracting funds from individuals and legal entities. In other words, it acts as an intermediary between those who own land for development and those who have funds to carry out such work. Among its clients is PJSC ZNVKIF Geos-Gloria – a company that raised money from individuals to build the Gloria Park residential complex. This residential complex is a project of the developer Geos, which is de facto controlled by former head of the Department of Construction and Housing Provision of the Kyiv City State Administration (1996–2010 yrs.) Mykhailo Holytsa and his son-in-law, Kyiv City Council deputy of the VII and VIII convocations (elected from UDAR and Solidarity) Mykola Nehrych.
Holosiivskyi Park was created in 2007, and in 2019 regulations on protection zones for the national nature park were adopted. According to them, construction work is prohibited closer than 250 meters to the park boundaries. The plot, however, is located right up against the park, twenty meters away. All this is happening because of corruption in local authorities, since the borders of Holosiivskyi NNP have not been officially established, because the Kyiv City State Administration (KCSA), for a decade and a half since the park’s creation, has not developed land-management documentation, nor established and recorded the boundaries of thousands of hectares of green plantings on the ground.
The editorial board appeals to the State Bureau of Investigation (DBR) and the National Police to investigate the negligence of KCSA officials and the corrupt Korobka, whose abuses are leading to social tension and illegal construction during the war.
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