Ten hectares of woodland that had been unlawfully held by Medvedchuk’s organisations have been returned to state ownership

Stanislav Sereda
Stanislav Sereda Journalist
Ten hectares of woodland that had been unlawfully held by Medvedchuk’s organisations have been returned to state ownership
Viktor Medvedchuk
The Kyiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office has returned 10 hectares of forest land in the Obukhiv district to the state; this land had been illegally used for over 20 years by entities linked to former MP Viktor Medvedchuk.

This was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General.

According to the investigation, in 2004 officials from the Kyiv Regional and Obukhiv District State Administrations illegally removed land from state ownership and transferred it to private entities. At that time, Medvedchuk headed the Presidential Administration of Ukraine. No mandatory decision by the Cabinet of Ministers regarding the expropriation of forestry land was adopted, which constitutes a violation of the land and forestry legislation in force at the time.

On 3 June 2026, state ownership of the plots was officially registered. The Prosecutor’s Office notes that work to recover the illegally alienated forest land is ongoing.

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