Kyiv officials invented buildings to withdraw land under "toilet scheme" - media. VIDEO
Kyiv officials received land through fake real estate under the "toilet scheme".
This is stated in the material of Bihus.Info, Censor.NET reports.
What is the essence of the scheme
Thus, Komarnytskyi and a group of representatives of the Kyiv authorities received plots under the so-called "toilet scheme", the essence of which is to privatise a small property in Kyiv and then, through a vote of the Kyiv City Council, to receive a disproportionately large plot of land under it. The scheme was modified because most of the plots in question did not have any buildings at all.
Kyiv City Council members and KCSA officials were looking for commercially attractive plots in Kyiv that could be withdrawn through the "toilet scheme". The group headed by Komarnytskyi was mainly responsible for this, including Klitschko's deputy Petro Olenych, deputy director of "Kyivblagoustrii" Oleksii Mushta, head of the land commission of the mayor's office Mykhailo Terentiev, as well as Komarnytskyi's direct managers, the investigation said.
The group was primarily interested in "passable" plots near metro stations, transport interchanges and near apartment blocks. Some of the plots were rumoured to be used for shopping centres and another for an apartment hotel.
They were able to interfere in the Kyiv land registration process to the extent that they could freely reflect "virtual" real estate in the documentation of the Department of Land Resources of the Kyiv City State Administration. This gave them the right to lease or buy land under a simplified procedure - without any auctions.
"Thus, the group managed to illegally take possession of 6 plots: near the Kontraktova metro station, in Troieshchyna, Nyvky, land near Holosiivskyi Park and two near Zhytomyrska metro station. Zhytomyrska metro station. On another plot near the Beresteiska metro station, the organisation managed to build a shopping centre, despite the resistance of neighbouring residents, using the same scheme," the investigation says.
For each "withdrawal", the group created a separate company, owned either by relatives of the scheme participants themselves or by fictitious persons who, however, led to the same participants, the journalists said.
The Komarnytskyi's case
On 6 February this year, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office announced the exposure of a criminal organisation headed by Denys Komarnytskyi, a person involved in the Bihus.Info investigations, who was called the "watchdog for Kyiv".
The scheme consisted of searching for promising land plots and registering ownership of structures that had never existed on those plots in the name of controlled persons. Subsequently, applications were submitted to the city council to grant them ownership of the land plots for the maintenance of these structures, which allowed them to avoid bidding.
Members of the Kyiv City Council and officials of the Kyiv City State Administration ensured the adoption of decisions on granting the relevant land rights, for which they received bribes in the form of money and real estate.
According to the investigation, as a result of the criminal organisation's activities in 2023-2024, land in the city centre worth UAH 11.6 million was illegally withdrawn from the ownership of the Kyiv territorial community.
Earlier it was reported that journalist Mykhailo Tkach discovered Denys Komarnytskyi, the "watchdog for Kyiv", in Vienna.
