Under the procedural guidance of the Frankiv District Prosecutor’s Office of the city of Lviv and the Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office, the lawyer, two state registrars and an expert were notified of the suspicion.
According to the investigation, the lawyer organized a fraudulent scheme to acquire basement premises with a total area of almost 130 square meters. m, located on Rynok Square in Lviv. The latter are located in the buffer zone of the UNESCO World Heritage site and were communally owned by the city.
To implement this plan, he involved two state registrars and an expert in the field of architecture.
On the basis of forged official documents, employees made unauthorized changes in the State Register of Real Property Rights, which helped alienate real estate objects.
Subsequently, the suspect, based on a fictitious conclusion of the business entity about the possibility of combining the basement premises, increased the area of such premises and subsequently sold them to a third party for more than UAH 3 million.
In this way, the defendant legalized the property acquired through crime.
The lawyer is accused of organizing unauthorized actions with information that is processed in electronic computing machines (computers), automated systems, computer networks or stored on the media of such information, committed by a person who has the right to access it, abuse of authority, fraud, legalization (laundering) of property obtained through crime and forgery of documents (Part 3 of Article 27, Part 3 of Article 362, Part 3 of Article 27, Part 3 of Article 365-2, Part 4 of Article 190, part 1, 2 of article 209, part 3 of article 358 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). Unauthorized actions with information that is processed in electronic computing machines (computers), automated systems, computer networks or stored on the media of such information, committed by a person who has the right to access it (Part 3 of Article 362) qualify as registrars. of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), as well as abuse of authority for one of them (Part 3 of Article 365-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). For an expert – forgery of documents (Part 3 of Article 358 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
At the request of the prosecutor, the court imposed arrests on the specified premises.
Investigations are ongoing.
The pre-trial investigation is carried out by investigators of the Lviv District Police Department No. 2 of the Main Department of the National Police in the Lviv Region.
Note: in accordance with Art. 62 of the Constitution of Ukraine, a person is considered innocent of committing a crime and cannot be subjected to criminal punishment until his guilt is proven in a legal manner and established by a court verdict.
Department of Information Policy
Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office