The pre-trial investigation is ongoing, the sanctions of the articles provide for punishment in the form of imprisonment for up to 12 years.
The court seized 80 real estate properties in different regions of Ukraine that belonged to trade union organizations and were illegally sold to private owners. This was reported by the press service of the SBI.
The investigation claims that from 1992 to the present, officials of the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine and private joint-stock companies under the control of the Federation, with the prior conspiracy of a group of persons , formalized the alienation of health resort, sports and other state complexes.
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Among the objects:
- Tourist and Druzhba hotels in Kyiv; Zhovten sanatorium in Koncha-Zaspa;
- “Morshinsky” in Lviv region;
- “Polyana” in Transcarpathia;
- sports complexes, in particular the building in which Kyiv Sport Club is located.
< li>“Kuyalnik” in Odesa;
As part of a joint investigation with the SBU, it was established that, starting in 1992, employees of the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine and joint-stock companies controlled by it processed the alienation of health resorts, sports and other state complexes .
The property was transferred to the National Agency for Identification, Search and Management of Assets Obtained from Corruption and Other Crimes (ARMA).
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This was preceded by 35 criminal cases and 147 lawsuitson the return of 45 objects and land plots with an area of more than 34 hectares, illegally removed from state property by trade unions.
In 1994, the now deceased ex-chairman of the Fund state property Valentyna Semenyuk said from the podium of the Verkhovna Rada that privatization in Ukraine takes place without creating a legislative field and rules of the game.
In 2004, she wrote an article for ZN.UA in which she claimed that “There is no need to be afraid of reviewing the results of privatization”.
Today, the most famous examples of reprivatization in Ukraine were the return to state ownership of OJSC “Kryvorizhstal”, OJSC “Nikopolsky Zavod” Ferroalloys” (NZF), OJSC “Nikopolskyi Southern Pipe Plant”. » is not in the legislation of Ukraine.
So the results of privatization can be reviewed in accordance with the current legislation of Ukraine. The Law “On the Privatization of State Property” provides for the possibility and procedure of returning privatized property to the state, while this process is not directly called “reprivatization”.
According to part 5 of the article 27 of the Law, at the request of one of the parties the sales contract may be terminated or invalidated by a court decision in the event that the other party fails to fulfill the obligations stipulated in the sales contract within the specified time.
Part 6 of Article 29 of the Law stipulates that violation of the privatization procedure established by law or the rights of buyers is grounds for invalidating the purchase and sale agreement of the object of privatization.
Privatized property can be forcibly returned to the state only in court.
