Law Enforcers Name Another Klitschko Deputy as Suspect
The suspicion concerns failure to take measures to eliminate the consequences of environmental pollution.
Kyiv prosecutors have announced a suspicion of failure to take measures to eliminate the consequences of environmental pollution against one of the deputies of Kyiv City State Administration (KGGA) head Petro Panteleyev.
“The Desnianskyi District Prosecutor’s Office of Kyiv, following a pre-trial investigation, has served a suspicion notice to one of the deputy chairmen of the KGGA, as well as a former liquidator of Radikal OJSC, over evading restoration measures to eliminate pollution on territory contaminated with hazardous substances, which led to grave consequences (Article 237 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine),” said the Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office in a statement.
According to a source for Ukrainska Pravda, the suspect is Panteleyev, a deputy of Klitschko. As a result of his actions, during 2014-2021 not a single measure aimed at eliminating the consequences of environmental pollution was carried out at the Radikal plant territory, nor were any demercurization measures taken on this territory.
The total volume of mercury and mercury-containing substances on this territory reaches about 200,000 tonnes.
Due to the clogging of the plant territory with hazardous waste and the prolonged absence of any measures aimed at eliminating the consequences of environmental pollution, damage exceeding UAH 40 billion has been caused.
As part of this case, the prosecutor’s office simultaneously served a suspicion notice on the former liquidator of Radikal OJSC, who was tasked with restoring the solvency of the enterprise and carrying out demercurization measures on its territory and property.
Later, the KGGA confirmed that Panteleyev had been served the suspicion notice. It stated that the Radikal plant had never been municipal property, and that the hazardous waste accumulated as a result of the negligence of its owners.
The KGGA called the serving of the suspicion notice “another attempt at political pressure on city authorities.” It claimed that state bodies had in fact blocked the city’s attempts to develop a project for disposing of the plant’s waste and to finance it.
On January 25, the first deputy head of the KGGA, Mykola Povoroznyk, was served a suspicion notice in a case concerning a land plot.
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