The Case of the Unlawful Allocation of Water Fund and Forest Fund Land in the Strakholissia Village Council by Valerii Kondratenko

The Case of the Unlawful Allocation of Water Fund and Forest Fund Land in the Strakholissia Village Council by Valerii Kondratenko
Start of the trial 3 February 2020
Instance HACC
Stage of criminal proceedings Preparatory proceedings

According to the investigation, Valerii Kondratenko, head of the Directorate of the State Committee for Land Resources in Ivankiv District, knowingly approved the transfer into private ownership of land belonging to the Strakholissia Village Council that formed part of the water fund and forest fund lands. He acted in the interests of third parties and abused his official position.

As a result, 42 citizens received ownership of land plots with a total area of 83.99 hectares, drawn from the reserve land of the Strakholissia Village Council of Ivankiv District. In reality, however, these plots belonged to the water fund and forest fund lands and were not subject to transfer into private hands.

The HACC applied to the HACC Appeals Chamber to have the criminal proceedings transferred to another court, since they had been entered in the URPI in 2016, before the law on the HACC took effect, and the pretrial investigation had been conducted by the police and the prosecutor's office rather than by the NABU and the SAPO.

The panel concluded that the proceedings did not fall within the HACC's jurisdiction and were to be transferred for hearing to the Ivankiv District Court of Kyiv Region.

Proceeding No. 42016111130000164
Case No. 366/919/18
Date the hearing was scheduled 03/02/2020
Subject
  • Other
Qualification
Article 364, part 2
Instance Key parties
HACC 03/02/2020 Panel of judges: Halabala M.V., Kryklyvyi V.V., Nohachevskyi V.V.
THE CASE OF VALERII KONDRATENKO
Preparatory proceedings

According to the investigation, Valerii Kondratenko abused his official position by approving the unlawful allocation of 83.99 hectares of water fund and forest fund land into the private ownership of 42 citizens.

  • December 8, 2016
    the pretrial investigation was launched
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    December 6, 2019
    the case was referred to the HACC for consideration
  • February 3, 2020
    the HACC scheduled a preparatory hearing
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    June 3, 2020
    the HACC Appeals Chamber ruled to transfer the case for hearing to the Ivankiv District Court of Kyiv Region

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