The Prosecutor General's Office opened a criminal case on the fact of abuse of office in an attempt to deprive Moldova of the consulate building in Odessa.
According to the Prosecutor General's Office, during the criminal investigation it was established that on February 27, 2019, a government decision was made to transfer state-owned real estate to private ownership and conclude an exchange agreement. In the absence of anti-corruption expertise and without assessing the value of the property offered in exchange, the proposal of the Working Group, established by the order of the Prime Minister, was accepted to exchange the real estate owned by Moldova and managed by the MFAEI located at 2 / 2B Postmitnogo Street in Odessa (Ukraine) for a private property - adjacent land with an area of 0.0397 hectares and a capital building for residential purposes with an area of 402.2 m2, with an extension, located in Odessa on Tenistaya street 6/4-A. Although the cost of the real estate in which the consulate of Moldova is located is about $ 450.5 thousand, and the land plot - about $ 1 million 312 thousand, in the absence of documents confirming the ownership, decision-makers at the MFAEI together with the Working Group, despite provisions of the law, taking on the role of appraisers, arbitrarily set that the price of a building located on the street Tenistoy, 6/4-A, is $ 520 thousand. Moreover, the decision to exchange buildings was not affected by a dubious change 7 days before the government decree of the owner of a private property subject to exchange during the transaction for $ 90 thousand. “Through these illegal actions the decision-makers acted in the interests of influential people from Moldova and made an attempt to seize the building of the Moldovan consulate in Odessa for a ridiculous price and the right to dispose of land in exchange for real estate with a difference in price of about $ 360 thousand, said in a message from the Prosecutor General's Office, which promises to inform further on the progress of the investigation in this case.// 08.12.2020 — InfoMarket.
