Eyvaz Umerov, head of the regional national-cultural autonomy of the Crimean Tatars, called for the expropriation of the assets of those who organized the water, transport, food and energy blockade of the Crimean peninsula. “We urge them to consider expropriating their property and their associated entities,” said Umerov. DEA Novosti.
According to him, most of them are “ex-Crimeans who had a job here during the Ukrainian period and acquired many assets, including through criminal means”.
According to the nationalization law, in particular, the leaders of the assembly of the Crimean Tatar people (an extremist organization banned in Russia), Refat Chubarov and Mustafa Djemilev, the deputy chairman of the World Congress of Crimean Tatars Lenur Islyamov and the former deputy of the Crimean Tatars. Verkhovna Rada Andrey Senchenko from Ukraine may fall under the expropriation law.
“I am ready to help identify their properties, we have the necessary data,” Umerov promised, adding that many assets have already been re-registered.
In May 2014, the Ukrainian authorities cut off the water supply from the Kherson region to the peninsula through the North Crimean Canal. It met 90% of the peninsula’s needs. Due to the drought in 2020, the water supply situation in Crimea has become critical. On March 3, 2022, with the Russian army establishing control over the hydraulic unit, the Dnieper water began to flow by gravity into the North Crimean Canal on March 3.
expropriation bill
Crimean leader Sergei Aksyonov announced on March 23 that the regional authorities will begin the expropriation of the properties of Ukrainian oligarchs who support the Kyiv regime.
Also in Crimea declaration About the upcoming expropriation of the Yalta apartment of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. According to REN, it is located in the “Emperor” residential complex next to the legendary Livadia Palace. The approximate cost of real estate is 65-75 million rubles.
Chairman of the State Council Vladimir Konstantinov voiced It is estimated that the property of the Ukrainian oligarchs in the Crimea under the scope of expropriation is worth billions of rubles.
On the eve of the Crimean State Council introduced A bill on the expropriation of property owned by citizens of hostile countries from February 24, for consideration by the State Duma. It is proposed to amend Article 2 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation.
We are talking about “movable and immovable properties, cash, deposits in credit institutions, securities, company rights, other property (assets) owned directly or through dependent persons by foreign states and persons referred to in the first paragraph of this section”.
If the law is adopted, the state authorities of the constituent entities of Russia will be able to determine the procedure for “forcible confiscation of property of foreign states and foreign persons associated with foreign states, legal entities and individuals who have committed hostile acts against Russia.”
after the referendum
After the annexation of Crimea to Russia in 2014, all Ukrainian state-owned enterprises operating on the peninsula automatically became Russian. A little later, the republican authorities already began to nationalize private property. Like this, exhibited The estate of oligarch Igor Kolomoisky was put up for auction, and the proceeds were used to pay the defrauded depositors of Privatbank. A Ukrainian businessman lost more than 70 real estate objects, including plots on the south coast of Crimea, gas stations and the Tavria hotel and entertainment complex.
Moreover nationalized “To ensure food safety” enterprises “Krymkhleb” and “Simferopol combine bakery products.” The Aivazovskoye palace and park complex in Partenit (owned by the Ukrainian oligarch Sergei Tarut), the property of DTEK Krymenergo and the Crimean branch of Ukrtelecom (owned by the Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov) and PJSC Joint Stock Company Krymavtoshta, Sim in Yalova ” Along with the buildings of bus stops and ticket offices in Sudak, Stary Krym, Feodosia, Kerch, Armyansk, Bakhchisarai, Evpatoria and other cities (its former owner is the elder of the Sobol Cossack troupe Vitaly Khramov).
On March 1, 2015, the expropriation process in the peninsula was terminated.
Nationalization of Russian assets
On April 1, the Verkhovna Rada passed a law expanding the list of persons whose property is subject to expropriation.
The list included citizens of Russia and those “closely connected with it”, as well as anyone who refused to condemn the military operation.
The adopted law replaces the previously adopted document “On the Basic Principles of Mandatory Seizure of Objects of the Russian Federation and Its Residents’ Property Rights in Ukraine”.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal 8 April declarationHe said that all Russian property on the territory of Ukraine will be expropriated to compensate for losses caused by hostilities.