A forest on the bank of the Dnieper was taken from Medvedchuk's wife's property

A forest on the bank of the Dnieper was taken from Medvedchuk's wife's property
Katerina Belousova

The cost of the plot is over 204 million hryvnias

The commercial court of the Kyiv region returned to the state ownership of 9.5 hectares of forest on the bank of the Dnieper in the Boryspil district, which was in

The forest was illegally owned by Oksana Marchenko, the wife of Viktor Medvedchuk, the leader of the banned "OPZZH" party, the Kyiv Regional Prosecutor's Office reported on Facebook.

Prosecutors appealed to the court and proved that the plot was set aside for private ownership contrary to the requirements of the law.

It is noted that the cost of the plot is more than 204 million hryvnias.

"Subsequently, the land was added to the statutory fund of legal entities, the beneficiary of which is the wife of an ex-people's deputy, deprived of Ukrainian citizenship - the leader of the banned in Ukraine party "OPZZH", the message says.

Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that the court returned 1,500 m2 of land worth 6 million hryvnias from private property to Kyiv's Bilichan Forest, which is part of the Holosiivskyi National Nature Park. The struggle for the forest lasted for about 14 years.

As EcoPolitic previously reported, the Commercial Court returned 375 hectares of land of the Troyeshchynski luky nature reserve from the property of the agricultural company "Nova Ukraina" to the territorial community of Kyiv. The company received these lands in 2020 without a decision of the Kyiv City Council.

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