According to the results of the audit of the activity of the Chernihiv City Council, the State Audit Service found violations that caused losses to the community in the amount of UAH 2.3 billion.
The audit was conducted by specialists of the Department of the Northern Office of the State Judicial Service in the Chernihiv region for 5 months. During the audit, 19 facts of violation of the requirements of the Criminal Code of Ukraine were established by officials and 14 criminal proceedings were registered.
In particular, a scheme of theft of land belonging to the Chernihiv city community, the estimated value of which is about UAH 720.0 million. Thus, the Chernihiv City Council transferred 79 communal property to foreign legal entities and natural persons with a total area of 55.8 hectares.
The scheme is simple: the city council identified the subordinate utility company "Chernihiv Budinvest" and the Department of Capital Construction Land for the construction of apartment buildings and commercial objects with further transfer of their rights for permanent use. In their turn, the municipal enterprise and management, as customers of construction, concluded contracts with other contracting organizations, which provided that after the commissioning of the object, all the rights on them are acquired by the developer, not the utility company or the community that actually owned these lands.
Thus, due to the free transfer of these land plots related to Alexander Lomako and Vladislav Atroshenko, the city budget of Chernihiv has already lost their ability to use them, as well as the opportunity to receive additional revenue to the budget in the amount of UAH 12.8 million. And related to Atroshenko and Lomako developers received towers.
Also, during the inspection of the State Audit Service, frauds with the territories of the objects of the nature reserve fund were revealed: the hydrological monument of nature "Lake Glushets", the Reserve "Saint" and the park-monument of the garden and park art "City Garden". The risks of their illegal alienation and the possible loss of the community of land plots of the nature reserve fund for the total amount of UAH 806.6 million were created.
In addition, the audit establishes the facts of the lease agreements on land with trusted persons of citizens of the Russian Federation on behalf of the Chernihiv City Council. At the same time, the contract for one of these areas was concluded six months after the full -scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine - in September 2022. The materials on this fact were transferred to the Chernihiv Regional Prosecutor's Office.
Also during the audit, 2 facts of violation of the legislation were recorded by the acting mayor of Chernihiv Alexander Lomak and other officials of the City Council.
In particular, during the audit of the Executive Committee of the Chernihiv City Council it was found that in June 2022, Alexander Lomako was on a business trip for 13 calendar days. He was reimbursed for a business trip in the amount of UAH 55.2 thousand. However, no information was obtained for requests for primary documents. Criminal proceedings under Article 351-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine were opened on this fact.
During the audit, another fact of abuse of office officials of the Chernihiv City Council, regarding the budget of the Chernihiv city territorial community for 2023, was established. Its signing was established on the results of voting of deputies of Chernihiv city council by the secretary of the city council Lomaka OA The amount of expenditures, according to the said decision of the City Council is 42 455.61 thousand UAH.
The decision was made without approval by the military administration, so the actions of officials of the Chernihiv city council contain signs of crimes provided for in Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine "Abuse of office" and other articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. According to information from our sources in the DBR, on this fact, a decision is made to open criminal proceedings.
The next step should be the deputies of the State Judicial Service and explanations from corrupt officials Alexander Lomako and KP directors about theft of UAH 2.3 billion. They are convinced that Alexander Lomako will be removed from the duties of Acting Chernihiv mayor, if not a deputy corps, then law enforcement agencies.
A detailed analysis of financial activities and facts of budget theft to the directors of Chernihiv KP in our next journal investigation.
