The former deputy of the Kyiv City Council is accused of large-scale tax evasion amounting to nearly 12 million hryvnias.
This is reported by Kyiv24
Details of the Case and New Circumstances
The Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office has announced that Denis Komarnytskyi, one of the suspects in a large-scale corruption case related to land and budget issues in the capital, has been formally charged in absentia. According to the results of the pre-trial investigation, Komarnytskyi purchased 48 apartments in prestigious residential complexes in Kyiv. He sold part of these properties, earning over 68 million hryvnias, but taxes on these transactions were not paid.
According to the investigation, participants in the “toilet scheme” identified promising land plots and registered ownership rights for structures that never existed on them under controlled individuals. Subsequently, applications were submitted to the city council for granting ownership rights to service these structures, allowing them to avoid auctions.
Corruption Schemes and Suspects in the Case
Denis Komarnytskyi left Ukraine at the beginning of this year following a large-scale operation by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau called “Clean City.” Law enforcement officials allege that a group led by Komarnytskyi and other figures organized a criminal scheme to appropriate land plots in Kyiv. This involves the so-called “toilet scheme,” where ownership rights to non-existent objects were registered under controlled individuals, and these rights were then used to obtain land without conducting auctions.
In the land corruption case, ten individuals have been charged, including former Kyiv City Council deputy Denis Komarnytskyi, former deputy head of the Kyiv City State Administration Petro Olenych, former head of the land issues commission Mykhailo Terentiev, and other representatives of the city authorities.