The Supreme Court will return almost 20 hectares of land on the shores of Lake Vyrlytsia, where a shopping and entertainment complex was to be built, to municipal ownership. This was reported by the Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office, Komersant ukrainskyi
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According to the prosecutor’s office, the site near Vyrlytsia, which has been reserved as a valuable natural area with significant recreational value since 1994, was given by the Kyiv City Council to a private entity for the construction of a shopping, entertainment, office and exhibition complex.
Prosecutors of the Specialised Environmental Prosecutor’s Office and the Darnytsia District Prosecutor’s Office of Kyiv then filed a lawsuit with the Commercial Court to declare the decision of the Kyiv City Council unlawful and also asked the court to invalidate the land lease agreement.
The Supreme Court confirmed the legality and validity of the decision of the Northern Commercial Court of Appeal, which upheld the prosecutors’ claims.
As a result, the decision of the Kyiv City Council was cancelled, and the land lease agreement concluded between the Kyiv City Council and a private company was declared invalid. The value of almost 20 hectares of land is over one billion hryvnias.