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Case on Yanukovych’s Hunting Land Submitted to Court

Wednesday, 15 June 2016, 14:37

On June 15, the Prosecutor General’s Office (GPU) filed a case against ex-Kyiv Oblast officials with the court. The case involves embezzlement of hunting land at Sukholuchia by ex-President Yanukovych, as the GPU press office reports [ed.: the text of this hyperlink is in the Ukrainian language].

The indictment is made against the state-run forest company’s CEO, two private companies’ CEOs, an ex-assistant to the Prime Minister and 14 more accomplices. "They all are accused of aiding Yanukovych in embezzling a valuable public property – a land plot with an area of 17.5 hectares (43 acres) in Sukholuchia forest of Kyiv Oblast worth over ₴22 million ($0.9 million). The property was sold to a dummy – Forester House Ltd [Ukr.: ТОВ "Дім Лісника"] controlled by Yanukovych," the report reads.

During pre-trial investigation, the court froze the entire property together with a hotel and a restaurant erected on this land plot. Moreover, it froze the assets of the accused worth over ₴10 million ($400,000) in total. The GPU underlined that if proven guilty, the court would sentence the accused to up to 12 years of imprisonment and seize their property.

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Yanukovych and three more persons were put on a wanted list with regard to this crime. Pre-trial investigation in absentia against them is about to start.

Source: Ukrayinska Pravda

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