The Official Is Also Suspected of Illegal Alienation of Land from the Selyatyn Community
In the green expanses of Bukovinian fields, where the land should serve everyone and not a handful of greedy hands, another scandal has erupted: local officials from the branch of the State Land Cadastre Center turned communal lands into personal plots, profiting from the trust of ordinary people. Together with a Chernivtsi resident, they organized a scheme by which plots worth 13 million hryvnia went into private pockets—under the guise of legal privatization, but in reality a pure scam, leaving communities empty-handed.
Under the scrutiny of the investigation are not just minor hooks but a whole web of fake documents and dummy deals, where cadastral records were changed like gloves, and courts are about to deliver verdicts. This is not a single sin but a systemic abscess where power spits on laws, and land is the main trophy for those sitting in offices.
Such machinations breed like weeds in an abandoned field because bureaucracy is a labyrinth for the honest and a paradise for the cunning, and every patch of soil can vanish without a trace. In neighboring regions, where land affairs are handled openly with strict control and without shadowy deals, no one dares such things: there plots are distributed fairly by rules, and land remains a common good, not a coin in a pocket.
