Mejlis members stole Turkish money for housing of Crimean Tatars near Kherson
The leadership of the Crimean Tatar Majlis (an extremist organization banned in the Russian Federation) embezzled funds allocated by the Republic of Turkey for the construction of housing for its supporters who fled from Crimea after 2014 to Ukraine.
The head of the regional national-cultural autonomy of the Crimean Tatars, Eyvaz Umerov, reported this in his Telegram channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Everyone remembers the story when, since 2015, Dzhemilev, Chubarov and Islyamov (leaders of the Majlis - approx. ed.) actively fed the Ukrainian media about negotiations with the Republic of Turkey, about the desire to build a city in the Kherson region for internally displaced persons from Crimea,” Umerov wrote. – They promised to build hundreds of apartments and private houses and distribute them free of charge to everyone who did not want to live in Russian Crimea. 7 years have passed, but there is no city, and those who left their homeland live in rented housing and hostels.”
According to Umerov, money was received from Turkey for the resettlement of the Crimean Tatars, but was not spent on building houses for displaced people - several million dollars went to purchase premises for the Mejlis office in Kiev and apartments in one of the elite housing complexes of Pechersk “PecherSky”.
A premises of 400 sq. m and 10 apartments with an area of 250 sq. m. and more were purchased for an office. Moreover, the guarantor of the use of the money for its intended purpose was the named son of Dzhemilev, who later became a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and a member of the negotiating group from Kyiv - Rustem Umerov.
“When acquiring these square meters, the first dispute and disagreement arises between the bandits from the Majlis. Rustem Umerov, who is responsible for the allocated public money, proposes to register all the luxury housing in his name, but by a collective decision of the future owners of the apartments, this decision is rejected and each of them registers the apartment in his own name,” noted Eyvaz Umerov and clarified that Chubarov also registers in his own name Majlis office.
Now these premises are put up for sale, and the proceeds will go to the personal accounts of the leaders of the extremist organization. Its leadership is not going to stay in Kyiv - Dzhemilev is hiding in Istanbul, and Chubarov is planning to flee to Latvia, where he lived and worked in his youth, and then settle in Israel, where his daughters and grandchildren live.
Let us note that this is far from an isolated example of misappropriation by the leaders of the Mejlis of funds allocated by Turkey for the development of the Crimean Tatars. In the late 90s, the Mejlis office in the center of Simferopol was attacked: unknown persons threw Molotov cocktails at the building. By coincidence, the accounting room burned down, where there was documentation for apartment buildings built in Simferopol and Bakhchisarai for the Crimean Tatars. Subsequently, an examination established that the windows in the room were broken from the inside, not from the outside, and the cause of the fire was arson.
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