12:10 30.09.2014

Residents of military town near Kyiv believe Svoboda's initiative to revise land allocation for Bionic Hill is political PR

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Kyiv, September 30 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The families of military serviceman moved from the territory of former military town No. 136 near Kyiv are afraid they will be left without apartments due to the revision of the land allocation for the construction of the Bionic Hill innovation park initiated by the Kyiv City Council's Svoboda faction election association, and believe that the initiative is political PR before the parliamentary election.

Lawmaker of Kotsiubynske rural council Oleksandr Kovtach gave the information at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine on Monday organized by representatives of families moved from the military town.

The lawmaker said that if the court issues a ruling on the cancellation of the land allocation, Bionic Hill will have grounds to forward ownership claims to Stolytsia Centrobud LLC, from which it bought property of the former military town and then received land under the property to private ownership.

"The problem is that a claim on the return of the territory was submitted, but it is unknown to whom the territory is to be returned. If they take the territory from Bionic Hill, it is clear that it will present claims against Stolytsia Centrobud, and the company, in turn, will take the property from people," Kovtach said.

"We'd like politicians to stop using political PR and give a chance of finishing the movement of families of military servicemen. Court litigation will resolve nothing, they only hinder the process of moving of the rest of nine families on the territory of the military town," he added.

He said that families left in the town explain their refusal to move to new apartments by the fact that the apartments were not transferred to the balance sheet of the Defense Ministry.

He also said that Stolytsia Centrobud is ready to finish the movement of people. The agreements with the Defense Ministry have been reached and the ministry is to take the apartments bought to its balance sheet.

In early September Stolytsia Centrobud proposed that non-moved residents receive apartments where they decided not to move in 2006. The company said that if the residents of the military town refuse to move the apartments would be transferred to the balance sheet of the Defense Ministry, which will arrange the distribution of the apartments.

The press service of Bionic Hill innovation park said that in September 2011 the economic court of Kyiv under a claim of Prosecutor General's Office studied the situation around the allocation of land plots in the military base and declared it legal. However, during the election campaign in September 2014 after addresses of chairman of the Kyiv City Council's faction Svoboda election association less than two weeks before the limitation of action expired the deputy prosecutor general again asked the economic court of Kyiv to revise the previous decision.

Bionic Hill said that on February 5, 2014 the district administrative court of Kyiv upheld the lawfulness of the decisions of Kyiv City Council on the allocation of land plots on the territory of the former military town to the innovation park and on August 4, 2014 the administrative court of appeals of Kyiv issued the similar verdict. On August 15, 2014, Bionic Hill was attacked by persons with metal bars under control of one of the lawmakers of Svoboda Party.

Bionic Hill said that the claims and actions of the opponents are provocative and politically motivated.

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