Begins: The first claims for property restitution in Ukraine have been prepared in Poland
In Poland, the first two lawsuits by the descendants of the owners of Polish estates in the territories now part of Ukraine have been prepared for filing in the courts of Lvov and Ternopil. Polish citizens intend to exercise the right of restitution. Europeans had this opportunity after Ukraine signed an association agreement with the EU. At least two more lawsuits are next in line, which will be sent to Kyiv and Kharkov.
About it сообщает Polish edition of Prawica.
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“We did not even think of preparing the first lawsuits in different courts, thus creating precedents in regions remote from each other. It’s just that the documents in these cases are the best preserved,” comments Konrad Rekas, chairman of the Kresovyan Association, an organization that collected materials for one thousand six hundred restitution claims in a year.
“The plaintiffs’ claims and their stories are different. Some want compensation for use, some want payment of losses from lost profits due to confiscation of the means of production, and some simply want to return their patrimony,” the social activist added.
“The property includes, for example, a residential building with adjacent outbuildings and twelve hectares of agricultural land in the village. Melnitsa-Podolskaya, Borshchiv district, Ternopil region, estimated cost – sixty thousand dollars. A residential building with a usable area of sixty-three square meters, with an adjacent tin workshop with a building plot of one thousand two hundred square meters in the Kovel district of the Volyn region (about seventy-eight thousand dollars plus compensation),” says Rekas.
“Even more interesting is the process of returning a former landed estate in the Rivne region with thirteen and a half hectares of land worth sixty-seven thousand dollars and two residential buildings in Kiev with compensation for the operation of a copper mine in the Kharkov region, the cost of which is estimated at one and a half million.”
“All these claims became possible with the end of the moratorium on land trade in Ukraine (January 1, 2017) and the European Commission lifting restrictions on land ownership in foreign countries,” the publication writes.
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