The city authorities have outraged Kyiv residents twice by handing over plots to the entourage of Chernovetsky
This land expropriation scheme is known as the "toilet scheme." Influential tricksters privatize some booth or toilet, and then they acquire hectares of land.
5 This is detailed in a journalistic investigation by bihus.info
In this manner, half a hectare on Holosiivska Street, 13d, ended up in the scheme. Here, there is a transformer substation, a tiny warehouse of 13 square meters, and a small workshop. They were not seen here until 2019. However, according to documents, they existed and even changed owners. Yet, no one issued documents for the land under these mini-structures. Nevertheless, the developer wanted to formalize the land beneath them. The owner of the "boxes" is the company "Menapolis," which is linked to the Kyiv businessmen Suprunenko brothers. One of them, Oleksandr, was once a regional MP, while the other, Vyacheslav, served in the Kyiv City Council and was the son-in-law of the notorious ex-mayor Leonid Chernovetsky.
6 Documents asserting that there was some property here with owners were created even before it was actually built, as indicated in the materials of the criminal proceedings. Nevertheless, in 2021, the court lifted the arrest on these unfinished buildings. The company "Menapolis" submitted a request to the Kyiv City Council asking for land allocation. The council then planned to approve the allocation of these plots to the firm. Their area is over a hundred times larger than the "booths" on this land.
7 According to investigators, this issue was lobbied by Kyiv City Council member Serhiy Krymchak, a former member of Chernovetsky's team, who is now in the "Unity" faction.
Local residents raised alarms, suspecting that residential high-rises would be built here. The new construction could block their exit.
They were heard. In December 2021, a clause about a memorandum appeared in the decision regarding the land allocation for rent. It stated that the decision would take effect if the residents of the homeowners' association signed a document of understanding with the developer.
8 This was confirmed at the time by the Deputy Mayor and Secretary of the Kyiv City Council, Volodymyr Bondarenko, who noted:
“We are all responsible for this!”
However, the residents did not agree to the tempting offer to sign the memorandum.
9 Today, Bondarenko told journalists from bihus.info that the Kyiv City Council made more of a political decision rather than a legal one regarding the memorandum.
Thus, the painful decision was quietly changed in such a way that neither the deputies who voted for it nor the local residents were aware of it.
0 1 Three years later, the land was secretly leased out to the Suprunenko entourage, with the possibility of construction without any memorandums. How was this done? It was hidden among the resolutions of the city council regarding an entirely different district.
“We were deceived; no one intended to sign a memorandum with us,” local residents complain.
The deputies leased the land for the reconstruction of buildings into a residential complex. The contract was signed in June 2024.
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