Companies accused of illegal grabs of land in Lviv were linked to ex-governor Senchuk, VR lawmaker Volodymyr Arjev says

June26200822:32

All the companies incriminated in falsifying land titles were registered at the same address – 63, Chornovola Blvrd and are linked to now deceased Lviv ex-governor Senchuk. Many of them are still in business, VR ad hoc work group head Volodymyr Arjev told journalists in Lviv June 26.

“This is not my first day around in investigating journalism, but what I saw is mind-blowing: huge land sites were grabbed by falsifying city council decisions, notary documents. In one of the local military units even the land, on which the checkpoint, gates and garage were located, was taken away,” V. Arjev stressed.

Courts covered up the whole affair, passing illegal decisions, ignoring facst of falsifications of documents, the lawmaker said. “If anything like this continues, a person may come tomorrow to my apartment, show a faked court ruling and seize my apartment, telling me to bug out,” Arjev added.

Representatives of VR work group also said that a gas-filling station built without any permission in Lviv will be dismantled.

Comment by ZIK

June 26, VR’s work group headed by the chair of VR subcommittee to fight organized crime and corruption held its session in the Lviv city council. The group came to Lviv to investigate illegal sales of 328 hectares of land in Briukhovychi and 15 sites to build gas-filling stations. The session was attended by Lviv city council secretary, deputy head of the Lviv oblast council, local SBU head, and deputy Lviv oblast prosecutor, ZIK reports.

Following its investigation, the work group will appeal to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine to revise Lviv city council decisions allotting land sites to the Western Oil Group; revise Lviv city council decisions on transferring land sites to individuals; appeal to VR and Supreme Council of Justice to launch a probe into illegal court rulings on land by Lviv courts and punish the guilty judges

As stressed by deputy oblast prosecutor Dmytro Lubchuk, the land affair in Lviv surfaced only in 2006. As soon as illegal land grabs became public knowledge, the prosecution protested Lviv oblast council decisions on the transfer of 328 hectares of land in Briukhovychi near Lviv. As the oblast council flouted the prosecution protests, this law-enforcement agency had to go to court, D. Lubchuk said, without specifying the outcome of the whole land saga.