Prosecution A. Avakov

In 2011 the police opened a criminal investigation into the fraudulent appropriation of 2008 to 700 hectares of land in the Kharkiv region. According to law enforcement officers, all businesses that have been transferred to land, registered at the address Sumskaya, 88, worked with structures related to the ex-governor of Kharkiv region Arsen Avakov. In January 2012 the Kharkiv region prosecutor's office instituted criminal proceedings against some officials of the regional administration and the regional department of the State committee on the fact of illegal alienation of land in the 2009 state property. In late January, was prosecuted for the abuse of official authority Arsen Avakov.