Geletey classified documents on Poroshenko’s scandalous land plot
The State Security Department, headed by Valeriy Geletey, has classified documents on Petro Poroshenko’s land plot in the historical part of Kyiv, where a monument of national significance was destroyed, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This is stated in the investigation of “Schemes” (a joint project of Radio Liberty and UA: First).
Journalists note that earlier the investigation established that during construction on Poroshenko’s site in Tsarskoye Selo, a monument was destroyed - part of the Alekseevsky lunette of the bastion of the Kyiv fortress. However, despite the fact of a criminal offense, the police closed this proceeding in the fourth month of Poroshenko’s presidency - back in 2014.
And in the fall of 2018, when Schema journalists began to officially ask for permits for construction on this site, the State Security Administration seized this information from at least three different government agencies.
Data on Poroshenko’s construction in the historical part of the capital were classified as official and state secrets.
Journalists found out that permitting documents for development, restoration, protection agreements for the monument, results of inspections, etc. were withdrawn from the Ministry of Culture, from two different departments of the Kyiv City State Administration (protection of cultural heritage and on issues of architectural and construction control), and from the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
When requesting information, these institutions referred either to a letter from the UGO dated November 12, 2018, according to which such information was classified as a “state secret,” or that they stated that the requested documents “are in temporary storage at the UGO.”
Minister of Culture Yevgeny Nishchuk answered journalists' questions briefly that he was “not aware of the matter.”
The UGO responded to the program’s request that “the information that is requested belongs to the category of information with limited access in accordance with the List of information constituting official information in the State Security Administration of Ukraine, approved by order of the UGO dated February 27.02.2018, 85 No. 22. On this basis, According to Article 20 of the Law on Access to Public Information and Article XNUMX of the Law on Information, the requested information cannot be provided.”
Journalists also submitted a request to the Presidential Administration addressed to Petro Poroshenko, but they did not provide comments before the broadcast of the program.
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