16:26 23.11.2017

SPF head a suspect in case on illegal privatization of part of ministry building in 201

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SPF head a suspect in case on illegal privatization of part of ministry building in 201

The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine (PGO) is investigating criminal proceedings on illegal privatization of part of the building of the Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry, the then former head of the Kyiv branch of the State Property Fund (SPF) and incumbent SPF Head Vitaliy Trubarov was interrogated as part of the case, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko has said.

"The PGO is investigating the case on illegal privatization of part of the building of the Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry in January 2013… The then head of the Kyiv branch of the SPF, Trubarov, who now serves as head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine, was interrogated yesterday," he wrote on his Facebook page on Thursday.

According to Lutsenko, the agriculture minister [at that time the Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry was headed by Mykola Prysiazhniuk] and his protege "decided to create a beer restaurant right in the premises of the ministry on Khreshchatyk Street, of course, for nothing."

"They acted through a lease scheme with the right of privatization, subject to improvement of the premises. Of course, the repair work was only on paper. These papers were needed to sign an illegal transaction on the purchase and sale of public premises to a private company," Lutsenko said.

As for Trubarov, it was he who did not carry out the specified control measures and signed the illegal contract.

According to Lutsenko, on November 22, Trubarov had to be detained, but "the law provides for the transfer of such a case and a notice of suspicion to the NABU, and it was done so."

The prosecutor general's press secretary, Larysa Sarhan, said that, according to the notice of suspicion, Trubarov, "through his willful actions, which resulted in abuse of office, that is deliberate use of office, in the interests of third parties, in defiance of the interests of the service, which entailed grave consequences for state interests, committed a criminal offense under Part 2, Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine."

As reported, in June 2017, former Agricultural Policy and Food Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk and two others persons were notified of the suspicion in illegal privatization and legalization of the premises belonging to the ministry, with an area of 516.6 square meters at 24 Khreshchatyk Street in Kyiv. The case is investigated under Part 2, Article 364 (as amended on April 7, 2011), Part 3, Part 5, Article 27, Part 2, Article 233, and Part 3, Article 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine

Prysiazhniuk has been on the wanted list since the spring of 2014.

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