Concorde Capital confirmed the information about the detention of Igor Mazepa at the Shegini checkpoint and search of its employees.
Law enforcement officials, while trying to travel abroad, detained a businessman – the organizer of a scheme for the illegal acquisition of lands where hydraulic structures of critical infrastructure are located – the Kyiv hydroelectric power station -. The State Bureau of Investigation reported this on Friday, January 19.
As Interfax-Ukraine reports, citing a source in law enforcement agencies, we are talking about the head of investment company Concorde Capital, Igor Mazepa.
“Also, three more members of the criminal organization, including the organizer’s brother, were detained in different regions of Ukraine,” the SBI said in a statement.
The bureau recalled that on November 29, 2023, law enforcement officials exposed and detained members of a criminal organization that illegally owns more than 7 hectares of land where the hydraulic structures of critical infrastructure – the Kyiv hydroelectric power station -.
This organization included about two dozen accused. It includes well-known investors in the field of luxury housing construction, their assistants, lawyers, architects, land managers, other qualified specialists and representatives of government agencies. They act in the interest of some developers.
“Using the legal loopholes in the legal status of the plots, the organizers, through corrupt connections with government agencies, registered them as agricultural land, which made it possible to allocate the plots this to citizens of Ukraine. Other participants looked for “dummy people” through social networks, who, for money, agreed to sign documents allocating land to them in private -property. Most of them are students of educational institutions in the capital who were misled and agreed to the offer due to their difficult financial situation,” the SBI said.
Subsequently, the executors, on behalf of the dummies, signed several documents to formalize the ownership of the lands. Then they “sold” the land to representatives of well-known luxury real estate developers in the Kyiv region, who ordered and financed the illegal scheme.
According to this procedure, in the period of 2020-2021, the organizers and participants of the criminal organization own state-owned lands classified as water fund lands and located in the hydraulic structures of strategic Kyiv hydroelectric power station.
The implementation of the criminal procedure was facilitated by the actions of individual officials of the State Geocadastre bodies, who exceeded their official powers when making decisions on the allocation of lands.
The actions of participants in a criminal organization and other persons are qualified under Articles 255 (creation, management of a criminal community or criminal organization, as well as participation in it), 233 (illegal privatization of state and municipal property), 209 (legalization (laundering) of property obtained by criminal means) Criminal Code of Ukraine.
As of November 2023, eight suspicions were reported under these articles.
Participants in a criminal organization face a sentence of up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property. The pre-trial investigation is ongoing.
In this regard, Concorde Capital confirmed information about the detention of Igor Mazepa at the Shegini checkpoint and a search of the company and its employees.
“The criminal proceedings themselves are related to the construction of real estate (cottage communities) in 2013,” the statement said.
The company also claims that the alleged damage is 7 million hryvnias, Igor Mazepa’s bail is set at 700 million, and his brother at 500 million.
Earlier in Zatoka, an ex-deputy was detained for allocating 15 plots by the sea. He prepared false documents about the alleged decision of two village councils to transfer the lands to private ownership.
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