HACC Appeals to Review Kozak’s Complaint

The Appeals Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court will consider an appeal against the verdict sentencing the former head of the Main Department of the State Geocadastre in Vinnytsia region, Yuriy Kozak, to 8 years in prison for seizing 17.11 hectares of land.

As is known, the anti-corruption court found Kozak guilty and sentenced him to 8 years in prison with a ban on holding positions related to the performance of state or local government functions for 2 years, with confiscation of property.

Open appeal proceedings on appeals against the verdict of the High Anti-Corruption Court of May 27, 2025 in criminal proceedings. Set a deadline of July 11, 2025 for the participants in the proceedings to submit objections to the appeals to the Administrative Board of the High Anti-Corruption Court

Yuriy Kozak is a suspect in the EBK database.

We will remind, in August 2022, the SAPO referred to court the case of the former director of the state enterprise "DH "Bohonytske" and the former head of the State Geocadastre in Vinnytsia region.

According to the prosecution, in 2016-2017, the head of the State Enterprise "Bohonytske", which is part of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine, together with the head of the State Administration of the State Geocadastre in Vinnytsia region, forged documents that allowed, bypassing the legal procedure (without the consent of the Cabinet of Ministers), to transfer 10 plots of particularly valuable land with a total area of ​​17.11 hectares to private ownership.

To give the appearance of legality to this scheme, the legend of providing land to employees of a state-owned enterprise for personal farming was used. However, as the investigation established, almost all the recipients of the plots had no relation to the state-owned enterprise. In addition, among the owners of the plots was a close relative of the head of the state-owned enterprise.

At the request of the NABU and SAPO, land plots illegally formed at the expense of especially valuable lands were seized. The investigation estimates the losses at UAH 11.6 million. In August 2022, this case was scheduled for consideration on the merits.

We also reported that the HACC did not suspend Deputy Prime Minister Chernyshov.