A court case has begun in Kyiv against a state registrar accused of unlawfully transferring a land plot valued at more than 1.5 million hryvnias from the community's ownership.
The illegal activities of the local resident were uncovered in August last year by investigators from the Holosiivskyi police department in collaboration with operatives from the Strategic Investigations Department.
Authorities found that the 39-year-old Kyiv resident made unauthorized changes to the automated system of the State Register based on forged documents and illegally re-registered a communal land plot located in the Sviatoshynskyi district to a friend.
To execute this criminal plan, she used the personal data of a man, filing an electronic application in his name and uploading documents to the register that did not substantiate any rights to the land plot. As a result of her illegal actions, land worth over 1.5 million hryvnias belonging to the Kyiv community was unlawfully re-registered, creating conditions for its further alienation.
Law enforcement documented all stages of the fraudulent scheme. Under the procedural guidance of the Holosiivskyi district prosecutor's office, investigators notified the suspect of charges under Part 5 of Article 190, Part 3 of Article 362, and Part 3 of Article 365-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. She is accused of fraud committed in especially large amounts, unauthorized interference in automated systems, and abuse of the powers of a state registrar.
Currently, the indictment has been sent to court. The woman faces up to 12 years in prison with asset confiscation. The court has also imposed a seizure on the land plot at the request of investigators.
Additionally, the woman had previously been notified of suspicion for committing a similar crime—during which she re-registered four land plots worth over 3 million hryvnias to her mother. The indictment regarding this fact is currently under consideration by the court.
Kyiv Police Communication Department