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In the morning of 15 September, Ruslan Kravchenko, whom President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suspended from the position of Attorney General of Ukraine on 14 September, published a series of recordings that, according to him, allegedly show the involvement of NABU director Semen Kryvonos in a corruption scheme with a land plot in 2014 year.
In the recordings, as Kravchenko states, the following figures appear in the case: "Yanus" – Semen Kryvonos, who at the time headed the registration service of the Obukhiv city-district administration of justice, "Shvonder" – the elder of the Starobedrichivska village council Petro Gorbachenko, "Bormental" – citizen Vladyslav Ruzmatov.
Kravchenko claims that during March–November 2014 year Gorbachenko, having joined a conspiracy with Kryvonos and other defendants, allegedly demanded from Ruzmatov $72 pressure to allocate a land plot of 0,25 hectares in the village Tarasivka, Obukhiv district.
In March 2014 year, Ruzmatov turned to the village council head to obtain land free of charge in ownership. According to Kravchenko, Gorbachenko told him that this could be done only for a bribe of $120 pressure.
In the released recordings, interlocutors allegedly discuss the amounts and how much each of them could receive.
In April 2014 year, Ruzmatov, as Kravchenko states, approached law enforcement and began acting under their control.
"In accordance with the developed criminal plan, Kryvonos was to involve a nominal person who was to be allocated the land plot gratuitously and subsequently ensure the execution of a sale agreement between the nominal person and Ruzmatov. In turn, Gorbachenko was to ensure the convening of a village council session and its decision to gratuitously allocate the land to the nominal person," the video states.
20 May 2014 year Bulashenko informed Ruzmatov that the land would be issued to citizen Vitalii Overchenko. Ruzmatov was to obtain it through a subsequent sale agreement between them.
Later the village council adopted a decision to transfer the plot to Overchenko. 30 September the registration service, headed by Kryvonos, registered title in his name.
After this Overchenko issued a power of attorney to Dmytro Shnayder. He, Kravchenko says, was to arrange a further sale of the plot to Ruzmatov.
"28 October 2014 year Kryvonos during a phone call gave oral instruction to Shnayder to look for an appraiser who could provide an expert monetary valuation of the land plot with a deliberately low market value," the video notes.
In the recording, the interlocutors discuss an appraisal of about 149 thousand UAH.
30 October appraiser Serhiy Ryabukin prepared a report in which he determined the land value at 149 896 UAH 25 kopecks, but its market value allegedly stood at 345 thousand UAH.
The sale of the land to Ruzmatov failed. As Kravchenko states, 31 October 2014 year Shnayder was in the notary office where documents were already being processed, but after allegedly receiving a phone message he refused the deal. At first he postponed it to 3 November, but later refused it altogether.
According to Kravchenko, the failure of the operation is linked to Kryvonos’s meeting with the deputy prosecutor of Obukhiv district Oleksii Pavlushko, which took place on the same day. After it Kryvonos allegedly stopped phone calls and ceased communicating with the other participants in the scheme.
Kravchenko stated that Kryvonos is suspected of soliciting a bribe in a particularly large amount. He also announced Kryvonos’s involvement in allegedly organizing the preparation and issuance of a knowingly forged land valuation report.
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