Position: former acting head of the Main Directorate of the State Geocadastre in Zhytomyr region.
The sphere of corruption activity: land issues.
Region of corruption activity: Zhytomyr region.
Qualification: Smolyanyuk's actions were qualified under Part 2 of Art. 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Status: at large.
The story of the case: on October 8, 2024, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAP) informed the former acting head of the Main Directorate of the State Geocadastre in Zhytomyr region of suspicion of abuse of office, which caused losses in the amount of more than 54 million hryvnias .
According to the mass media, it is about Oleksandr Smolyanyuk.
NABU detectives, in agreement with the SAP prosecutor, informed the former acting of the head of the Main Department of the State Geocadastre in the Zhytomyr region on suspicion of abuse of official position and causing millions of losses to an agricultural enterprise. Qualification of the suspect's actions: Part 2 of Art. 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine
The details of the investigation show that in 2021, the official, contrary to the current legislation and numerous court decisions, which confirmed the right of the agricultural enterprise to use land plots with a total area of almost 5 thousand hectares, terminated this right and canceled the registration of the relevant state acts.
Despite court decisions in favor of the agricultural enterprise, the official tried to transfer these land plots to another person under the guise of farming. Such actions led to the assignment of losses to a private enterprise in the amount of more than 54 million hryvnias.
Persons potentially involved in the corruption scheme: from open sources it is not known about Smolyanyuk's alleged accomplices.
Wealth: there are no declarations of Oleksandr Smolyanyuk's income in open sources.
Persons who should have responded to corruption schemes: law enforcement agencies responded in time to the criminal activity of the ex-official.
Scandals: before the emergence of the corruption scheme, Oleksandr Smolyanyuk was not noticed as a figure in other scandals.
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