In Kharkiv region, due to the intervention of prosecutors, unlawful disposal of 330 hectares of land worth almost 70 million UAH was prevented from communal property
25.09.2025
The Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office ensured the protection of state interests in the case regarding the attempt to illegally seize lands of the Loziv community.
In March 2025, a business entity filed a lawsuit in court seeking the transfer of 330 hectares of land into its ownership and the cancellation of the state registration of communal property. The estimated value of the land plots amounted to nearly 70 million hryvnias.
The plaintiff attempted to prove that it was the legal successor of a collective agricultural enterprise that received a state land act in 1996.
However, prosecutors established that the members of the entity were not members of this enterprise, and the provided documents did not confirm the fact of property or rights transfer in the proper manner. Therefore, the lawsuit was aimed at the illegal registration of communal land as private property.
In April 2025, the deputy head of the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office entered the case in the interests of the state represented by the Loziv City Council. During the proceedings, the plaintiff repeatedly changed its demands, but after the prosecutor submitted a reasoned response with additional evidence of the lawsuit's groundlessness, the plaintiff requested the court to leave the application without consideration. The prosecutor's office opposed this, as such a procedural action would allow for a similar lawsuit to be filed again.
Ultimately, the plaintiff submitted a statement of withdrawal from the lawsuit. The Economic Court of Kharkiv Region closed the proceedings, which, according to part 3 of Article 231 of the Commercial Procedure Code of Ukraine, prevents a repeated appeal to the court with the same dispute.
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