Businessman Mazepa is suspected of construction on lands of strategic importance - law enforcement officers. VIDEO&PHOTOS
This was reported by the State Bureau of Investigation, the Prosecutor General's Office, and the National Police, Censor.NET reports. Law enforcement officials did not name the suspect, but the circumstances of the case suggest that it is Ihor Mazepa.
In addition to him, "three other members of the criminal organization, including the organizer's brother, were detained in different regions". The places of work and residence of the members of the criminal organization were searched.
According to the investigation, during 2020-2021, the founder of the investment company, his brother, and other members of the criminal group, using corrupt connections in government agencies, illegally seized land plots of the water fund on which the hydraulic structures of the Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plant are located. The land in question is a plot in the Vyshhorod district worth over UAH 20 million.
"They acted in the interests of several developers. Using the gaps in the legal status of the plots, the organizers, through corrupt connections in government agencies, registered them as agricultural land, which allowed them to allocate these plots to Ukrainian citizens. ... Later, the perpetrators signed several documents on behalf of the "front men" to register ownership of the land plots. Then they "resold" the land to representatives of well-known elite real estate developers in Kyiv region, who ordered and financed the illegal scheme," the SBI said.
The law enforcement officers reminded that in November 2023, eight members of the criminal organization were served a notice of suspicion. Six of them are in custody.
The issue of serving a notice of suspicion to Mazepa and his accomplices detained yesterday is now being decided.
"Members of the criminal organization face up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property," the SBI added.
As Censor.NET previously reported, Igor Mazepa was detained on the evening of 18 January while trying to cross the border between Ukraine and Poland. His lawyers claim that he had already repeatedly left Ukraine on volunteer and business trips and returned each time.
Igor Mazepa is the founder of Concorde Capital, a company specializing in investment and brokerage services and debt restructuring.
The company owns 21.5% of the Dobrobut medical chain, KupiPay, a start-up selling agricultural land, Heidelberg Cement Ukraine, the Sunny Craft Centre, an amber mining company, a stake in the MakeUp platform, and a license for gas production in the Lviv region.
In the real estate sector, Mazepa owns the Shelest countryside complex and is the developer of the Goodlife Park cottage community.
