Tsar Village
By Larysa Artemenko
Posted May 16 2009
Officials from Ukrainian Kremenchuk have privatized land plots (more than 3 hectares) in contravention of legal land succession. This investigation shows the scheme of elligal privatization and describes the chain of events and the figures that provided “the ruling elite” with nice building lots.
The investigation also deals with an attempt of utilization of city budget money for private needs of vice-mayors and other officials. It produces proofs of the City Council having provided 900.000 (about 122.000 euros) Hrivna (hrn) for the building of a gas pipe-line and a distribution point on M. Churay Street, Kremenchuk, where the cottages of deputies, vice-mayors and heads of different municipal companies are being built. The author managed to find the register of the future land owners and published it as an evidence of the facts described. She also compares the cost of the houses being built and the salaries of the officials according to their tax return.
Moreover, the investigator found another analogous scheme of land privatization, this time for 7 hectares. The list of people pretending to the building lots again includes the names of Kremenchuk officials.
Read original article in Ukrainian here.
Read the English version here.
