Klitschko’s First Deputy Handed Suspicion in Land Case

On January 25, the first deputy head of the Kyiv City State Administration, Nikolai Povoroznik, was handed a suspicion in the case of depriving the land plot of the NSDC apparatus. This was announced by the mayor of Kiev Vitali Klitschko in his Telegram channel. As Klitschko said, in 2019, the city authorities terminated the right to permanently use the site on Shchusev Street near the Syrets metro station. The city brought the abandoned territory into operation, took out the garbage, carried out the improvement of the territory. And made a park there. “But the National Security and Defense Council does not abandon its intentions to build up the territory with skyscrapers and continues to put pressure on the city authorities because of law enforcement officers,” the mayor noted. According to him, in 2009 it was transferred to the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine for permanent use for the construction, operation and maintenance of multi-apartment residential buildings with underground parking and social infrastructure facilities. However, in 2019, it was found that for all 10 years the site was not used for its intended purpose, construction was not started. A landfill has formed on the land.