In Mykolaiv region, a court has returned 8 hectares of territory to the Buzky Gard National Nature Park that had been transferred to private ownership for farming.
The regional department of the State Service of Ukraine for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre (StateGeoCadastre) illegally transferred 2 hectares of territory to four citizens, the Mykolaiv Regional Prosecutor's Office reported on Facebook.
It is noted that the plots were transferred in violation of the requirements of current environmental legislation.
"Particularly valuable lands of the nature-reserve fund fell out of state ownership and were transferred to the private ownership of citizens under the guise of agricultural land," the message says.
It is noted that the value of the land reaches 77 million hryvnias.
The prosecutors appealed to the court, which satisfied the claim and returned the land to the state.
"Measures are currently being taken to ensure the real implementation of the court's decision," the press service added.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that the former head of one of the departments of the State Service of Ukraine for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre was served in absentia with a notice of suspicion of transferring 23 hectares of the Buzky Gard National Park to private ownership.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, 7 hectares of the Tovtrovyi Step reserve were illegally leased to a farm in Ternopil region.
