MPs from Mykolaiv region led the way in supporting the closure of real estate data

MPs from Mykolaiv region have become the leaders in the number of votes for draft law No. 11533, which restricts citizens' access to real estate data. The law will make it harder to expose corruption schemes and check property before buying.

This was reported by Anti-Corruption Dimension.

As noted in the media, data on real estate and land plots are key for journalists investigating corruption schemes. Restricting access allows corrupt officials to hide their wealth, create new schemes with property, and contributes to the growth of fraud. Ordinary citizens planning to buy real estate may also be affected, as it will become more difficult to check the properties.

Draft Law No. 11533 provides for the withholding of information on the location of real estate and cadastral numbers of land plots of legal entities. The restriction will be in effect during martial law and for a year after its end.

The author of the bill is MP from the Servant of the People party Ihor Fris, whose BIHUS.Info journalists had previously found numerous properties registered to his relatives' companies, including about twenty properties in the Carpathians: restaurants, hotels, and a winery.

MPs from the south of the country also voted in favor of the law. MPs from the Servant of the People party in Odesa Oblast - Oleksiy Leonov, Oleh Kolev, Oleksandr Horeniuk, Stepan Cherniavsky, and Oleksandr Tkachenko - voted in favor. Serhiy Koleboshyn was absent during the vote. The law was also supported by MP Anatoliy Urbanskyi (For the Future).

Anton Kisse ("Dovira") and fugitive MP Artem Dmytruk were not present at the meeting, and Oleksiy Honcharenko, although he was listed as present, abstained from voting.

As for the MPs from the Servant of the People party from Kherson region, Pavlo Pavlish, Viktoriia Vahner, Serhiy Kozyr, and Volodymyr Ivanov also supported the law.

MPs from Mykolaiv region were the most supportive of the law. Oleksandr Pasichnyi, Oleksandr Haidu, Ihor Kopytin, Artem Chornomorov, Maksym Dyrdin, and Ihor Negulevskyi unanimously supported the restriction of access to real estate registers.

At the end of July, only three MPs from the southern regions of Ukraine signed the draft law on restoring the independence of the NABU and the SAPO. Most representatives of the South ignored this initiative.

Анна Бальчінос