The Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office has succeeded in terminating a land lease agreement in Pushcha-Vodytsya, where a cottage community was illegally built, the Prosecutor General's Office reports.
The Northern Commercial Court of Appeal upheld the appeal of the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office and cancelled the decision of the Commercial Court. As a result, the Kyiv City Council must terminate the lease agreement and return the 4-hectare land plot in the Obolon district of the capital to the city community. In addition, the land plot must be brought into a suitable condition by demolishing 13 unfinished construction objects.
Prosecutors found that the land plot in question was leased to a private enterprise for 10 years for the reconstruction and maintenance of a family-type recreation centre in the Pushcha-Vodytsya neighbourhood.
However, the lessee failed to fulfil its obligations under the lease agreement and instead of reconstructing the previously acquired children's health camp, built a club town with 34 separate cottages on the recreational land.
In view of these violations, the juvenile prosecutors of the Obolon District Prosecutor's Office filed a lawsuit to terminate the lease and return the land to the city. The Northern Commercial Court of Appeal fully satisfied the prosecutors' claim.
Currently, the Obolonskyy District Court of Kyiv is considering an indictment against the former manager of a company that received the land plot for the reconstruction and maintenance of a family-type recreation centre, but instead built a cottage community there. He is accused of fraudulent acquisition of recreational land with an area of 4 hectares and a value of almost UAH 27 million (part 2 of Article 15, part 4 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).