ATO soldiers are rotting in the trenches - the top of the SBU is fattening in Kyiv with Poroshenko
While the ATO officers cannot extract the promised ten hundred acres from the state, high-ranking Ukrainian officials are receiving free apartments in elite skyscrapers in the very center of the capital in record time.
This was reported in a story by the Ukrainian investigative journalism agency Bihus info, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Today we will all rejoice together for a high-ranking official, deputy head of the SBU, who was such a good boy that Nikolai brought him an apartment,” the program host opened the story.
The official received an apartment with budget money “in the most show-off and hyped” skyscraper in the center of Kyiv.
“A lounge area, a restaurant, a fitness club, a spa and a thermal pool on the roof with a view of the whole of Pechersk and the Olympic Stadium,” describe the authors of the program of the Jack House residential complex, located on Lesi Ukrainki Boulevard, which was opened with pathos this fall.
At the same time, the cost of apartments in “Jack House” is at least 2000 dollars per square meter, a one-room apartment is about 120 thousand dollars, a two-room apartment is about 200 thousand.
The story also notes that the son of the Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Alexander Avakov, recently purchased a two-room apartment in this skyscraper. But the “valuable employee of the SBU” received housing for free.
Viktor Kononenko, an SBU officer from the Cherkasy region, after the Maidan becomes deputy chief of the SBU of the Cherkasy region. At the beginning of 2017, he moved to Kyiv, where he heads the Department for the Protection of National Statehood at the central office of the SBU. Then Kononenko went for a promotion: in July 2017, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko appointed him deputy head of the SBU.
“And he immediately introduced Kononenko to the Commission under the President of Ukraine on Citizenship Issues. A few days later, this commission recommended that Poroshenko deprive Mikheil Saakashvili of Ukrainian citizenship, which Poroshenko did, and Kononenko became the main speaker of the SBU,” the story notes.
“In the fall, Kononenko came to the Parliamentary Anti-Corruption Committee to cover for his ex-colleague Sergei Semochka (ex-chief of the SBU of Kyiv and the Kyiv region - ed.), whose family journalists found super-expensive real estate and Russian passports.
The merits of the deputy head of the SBU did not go unnoticed. The state, represented by the Security Service, thanked him with a three-room apartment worth more than six million hryvnia and an area of more than one hundred square meters,” the journalists added.
The apartment belongs to one of the 24 apartments that the SBU received in the Jack House residential complex from the developer, the Poznyakizhilbud company. The elite skyscraper was built on land that at the beginning of the XNUMXs the Kiev City Council transferred to the SBU for the construction of the building - so the apartments automatically became service apartments. That is, employees have the right to use them, not own them. However, for the sake of Kononenko, the whole process was launched at a surprisingly fast pace.
On August 30, at the request of the SBU, the apartment was excluded from the list of official ones. On September 14, the petition was granted, and Kononenko filed for privatization. On October 26, the apartment was transferred to Kononenko, his wife and son, and on November 1, they formalized ownership rights. That is, everything took two months and one day.
“Such speed is enviable. For example, war veterans and family members from Kyiv have been waiting for four years for the promised land - not houses, not apartments, but ten acres. Out of 21 thousand applications, less than two hundred were satisfied,” the story notes.
“Having been transferred to Kyiv, I stood in line. I have a length of service that allows this,” Kononenko himself explains the unprecedented generosity of the state.
In addition, the Kononenko family owns a number of apartments in Cherkasy, three of which belong to his mother-in-law Nadezhda Voznyuk. The most interesting thing is that four months before her father-in-law received the apartment, pensioner Voznyuk purchased parking in the same Jack House residential complex for 40 thousand dollars.
“This is normal, it’s in the declaration. She has three children who help her,” explained the deputy head of the SBU.
“It turns out that the state can be effective and flexible, it can provide unrealistically expensive housing and not just let you live, but also give you ownership with breathtaking speed and without bureaucracy. It is a pity that it is extremely rare and in relation to one specific citizen. Apparently, especially valuable,” the story concluded.
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