Return of stolen property

Dnipropetrovs'k (now Dnipro), May 2, 2004

The story is about the return to state ownership of the central market “Ozerka”, as well as property that was illegally privatized and later sold to foreign companies during the period when Pavlo Lazarenko was Prime Minister of Ukraine.

Comments: entrepreneur Oksana Chmon, new market director Yevhen Volyniuk, head of the regional state administration Volodymyr Yatsuba, regional prosecutor Serhiy Sorokin.

Reference: In 1996-1997, with the assistance of Pavlo Lazarenko, several buildings in Dnipro were privatized and later sold to foreign companies, including the building of the Ministry of Ferrous Metallurgy of the Ukrainian SSR, the Church of St. Joseph, the building of the regional Business Center, and others. Later, the state returned this property in court.