Alleged embezzlement of Young Guard property in Odesa is subject to criminal proceedings

The Odesa Regional Prosecutor's Office has opened a criminal investigation into the possible embezzlement of state property at the Young Guard children's center.

This was reported by MP Oleksiy Honcharenko, citing the response of the Odesa Regional Prosecutor's Office to his request.

The MP demanded that the prosecutor's office check the activities of the former director of the Young Guard children's center, take an inventory of the center's property and find out the circumstances of the felling of trees and the delivery of metal, as well as check possible facts of lobbying for the return of Oleksiy Arsenyuk to the position of the center's director general despite the conclusion of the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption.

Intent asked the MP for a comment on his request, as well as the Odesa Regional Prosecutor's Office regarding this proceeding.

In 2023, the Dumskaya newspaper stated, citing its sources, that since the Young Guard was not on the list of objects not subject to privatization, it was considered for sale, especially since the center had been unprofitable during the pandemic.

The children's center was founded in 1924 on the site of the former estate of Count Luzanov as a pioneer camp of republican significance, the "Commune of Young Pioneers in Luzanivka". In 1928, a sanatorium-type summer children's camp for tuberculosis patients was organized there. In 1935, it became the Ukrainian Artek children's sanatorium (Crimea was part of the RSFSR at the time).

Кирило Бойко