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As part of the public project “Lviv Audit,” we found information that by the decision of the Executive Committee of the Lviv City Council of 08.12.2023 No. 1373 “On Amendments to the Decision of the Executive Committee of the Lviv City Council of 31.12.2021 No. 1203 “On Setting Tariffs for Passenger Transportation Services by Electric and Automobile Passenger Transport on Public Routes in the Lviv City Territorial Community” Andriy Sadovyi and his people raised public transportation fares for us, the residents of Lviv.
Having found grounds that indicated that the decision was illegal, we appealed to the court. As a result of our appeal, court proceedings were initiated. As part of this proceeding, in order to prove all the violations, the court ordered a forensic economic examination at our request. The city authorities resisted this examination in every possible way. The Executive Committee of the Lviv City Council even filed an appeal to prevent it from being conducted.
However, by the decision of the Eighth Administrative Court of Appeal of December 17, 2024, the appeal of the Executive Committee of the Lviv City Council was dismissed, and the decision of the Lviv District Administrative Court of July 16, 2024, to appoint a forensic economic examination in case No. 380/4747/24 was upheld.
Andriy Petryshyn’s team has been researching for a long time why Sadovyi is so afraid and why he is obstructing the examination in every possible way.
And they found that the documents that became a prerequisite for the decision to illegally raise public transportation fares for citizens clearly showed signs of official forgery. Namely, the decision to raise prices was made in violation of the law, because it was not economically justified.
Reacting to these facts, which have clear signs of a criminal offense, Petryshyn filed a statement of crimes with the Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office on February 17, 2025, on the following grounds, among others:
- Forgery by Andriy Sadovyi of a document entitled: “Minutes No. 102 of the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Lviv City Council (the meeting was held in room 230”, dated 08.12.2023, which is a criminal offense under Articles 358, 366 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
- Abuse of office, which entailed grave consequences in the form of millions of losses for members of the territorial community of Lviv as a result of illegal actions by Andriy Sadovyi as the head of the Executive Committee of the Lviv City Council and Oleh Zabarylo as the persons who prepared for the vote and signed documents for the adoption of the illegal decision of the Executive Committee of the Lviv City Council of 08.12.2023 No. 1373.
The Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office, having received Andriy Petryshyn’s statement about the commission of a criminal offense by Lviv officials, apparently due to a strong reluctance to investigate the case, committed a procedural diversion and did not enter the data on the criminal offense into the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations of Ukraine. However, exercising constant public control over this case, I went to court. And on February 28, 2025, after arguments, the court decided:
- To oblige the authorized person of the Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office to enter the relevant information into the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations on my application of 17.02.2025 regarding the commission of a criminal offense by Andriy Sadovyi and Oleh Zabarylo under the preliminary legal classification under Part 1 of Art. 358, Part 2 of Art. 364, Part 2 of Art. 366 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Now, Andriy Sadovyi and his people will testify during interrogations with investigators as to why fares for Lviv residents were raised without economic justification, why documents were signed by persons who were not present at the meeting, and many other things…
Andriy Petryshyn notes that lawbreakers in Ukraine can and should be dealt with. However, results are achieved faster and more efficiently when we do it together, side by side.
“We don’t have many options, ladies and gentlemen. Either we bury them, or they will finally steal Ukraine, and we will all be left with nothing. There is no third option,” writes Andriy Petryshyn.
