The State Bureau of Investigations of Ukraine detained businessman Mazepa upon crossing the border

The State Bureau of Investigations of Ukraine confirmed the detention at the border of the organizer of a land deal involving critical infrastructure—the Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Station.

The press service of the State Bureau of Investigations of Ukraine reported this development.

The detained individual is Igor Mazepa, the founder of the investment company Concorde Capital. His arrest is related to obtaining land rights for the construction of the Goodlife Park cottage town in the Vyshhorod district of the Kyiv region.

Mazepa was detained at the “Medyka – Shehyni” checkpoint on the border with Poland while attempting to leave Ukraine. Along with him, his brother Yuri Mazepa and two other individuals were also detained.

“About 20 people are involved in the case, including developers and employees of the State Geocadastre. The issue concerns the seizure of more than 7 hectares of water fund land along the Kyiv dam,” reported earlier.

Concorde Capital confirmed the searches by the State Bureau of Investigations of Ukraine and the detention of the director at the border crossing point in Shehyni in the Lviv region.

The State Bureau of Investigations of Ukraine stated that the arrest was made under Article 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine. Additionally, three other participants in the criminal organization, including the organizer’s brother, have been detained in different regions of Ukraine.

The State Bureau of Investigations of Ukraine announced that the detained individuals are under suspicion, and today preventive measures will be chosen.

Recall that on November 29, 2023, employees of the State Bureau of Investigations of Ukraine, in collaboration with the National Police of Ukraine, exposed and detained members of a criminal organization who unlawfully seized more than 7 hectares of land, including the territory with hydraulic structures of the Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Station.

The organization included almost 20 individuals, among them well-known investors in elite housing construction, their assistants, lawyers, architects, land surveyors, other qualified specialists, and representatives of government bodies.

According to the State Bureau of Investigations of Ukraine, they acted in the interests of several developers—exploiting legal gaps in the status of land plots, organizers, due to corrupt ties in state bodies, registered them as agricultural lands, allowing these plots to be allocated to Ukrainian citizens.

Other participants sought “dummy individuals” through social networks who, for money, agreed to sign documents for the allocation of land to them in private ownership—most of them were deceived students.

Subsequently, the executors, on behalf of these “dummy individuals,” signed a series of documents to formalize property rights. They then “resold” the land to representatives of well-known developers of elite real estate in the Kyiv region, who ordered and financed the illegal scheme.

The actions of the criminal organization members are qualified under Articles 255 (Creation, leadership of a criminal organization or criminal group, as well as participation in it), 233 (Illegal privatization of state or communal property), 209 (Legalization (laundering) of property obtained by criminal means) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

In November 2023, 8 suspicions were reported under these articles.