Half of Sevastopol is being built using fake Ukrainian permits
In Sevastopol, more than half of commercial construction projects are carried out using Ukrainian permits.
There is no way to verify their authenticity, which unscrupulous developers take advantage of by forging the required signatures and buying Ukrainian-style forms, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
As the acting head of the construction supervision department, Dmitry Klimenko, said at a meeting of the Legislative Assembly of Sevastopol, out of 151 capital facilities being built in the city, 53 facilities are being built under the Federal Target Program, and 61 of the commercial ones are being built on the basis of Ukrainian permitting documents.
“Without the need for confirmation of such documents by the authorities of the Russian Federation, we do not have the right to verify the authenticity of the documents that are provided to us,” Klimenko complained. In practice, there were cases when we had questions at the sites regarding the documents provided, we sent information to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but, unfortunately, not a single case was ever initiated.”
One of the latest construction projects, which is covered by Ukrainian documents, is the construction of the Admiral apartment complex in Streletskaya Bay under the guise of a yacht club. The permitting documents of Triloka LTD LLC were checked by law enforcement officers, and no violations were found in them. How this can be was clearly demonstrated by Legislative Assembly deputy Tatyana Shcherbakova.
A multi-storey office center is being built on Brestskaya Street under the windows of an apartment building. According to documents, construction began back in Ukraine, and currently the facility is simply being completed. The corresponding expert opinion of Geometry LLC confirms that the foundation of the future center was poured in 2013. However, the Google Earth resource refutes the conclusions of experts - neither in 2013, nor even in 2017 there was a foundation under the windows of a residential building. It appeared in 2019, which residents repeatedly reported to law enforcement officers, demanding to stop illegal construction and the destruction of their local area.
“Residents of Brestskaya Street, 20, who had a high-rise crane working in their yard, and work was being carried out at night and on weekends, conducted a protocol for examining the evidence, and recorded it all notarized,” Shcherbakova emphasized. “Their rights were clearly violated, because the woodsheds were demolished and the yard was destroyed. Next, the documents will go to the prosecutor's office and the Investigative Committee to receive a proper legal assessment of what happened.
It seems that, unfortunately, due to the powers and tiny fines, and due to the fact that you can only take a fine, but then there is no way to punish for this violation, Sevstroynadzor simply follows all violators with its eyes, punishing in a certain way, but is not able stop them. It turns out that new Ukrainian documents will appear and new foundations will be built at night.”
Shcherbakova’s colleague in the parliamentary hall, Vyacheslav Gorelov, is confident that many objects in the city are being built using fake Ukrainian-style permits.
“It’s sad that Sevstroynadzor does not have the ability to verify the authenticity of documents received by employees. Because Sevastopol is a small city, and it is known about many objects that they are being built according to documents of dubious origin. I will not voice these rumors from a high rostrum. But when one rumor is a rumor, and when two rumors are already a phenomenon. I hope that somehow it will be possible to clarify the authenticity of Ukrainian documents. Because many of the city’s problematic problems stem from here,” the deputy concluded.
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