Ukrainian entrepreneurs are outraged by anti-corruption activist Shabunin's stance, as he criticizes a bill that safeguards honest real estate buyers.

The Union of Ukrainian Entrepreneurs is outraged by the statements made by anti-corruption activist Vitaliy Shabunin, who unjustly criticized a draft law aimed at enhancing the rights of conscientious buyers of real estate.

Member of the board of the Union, Alexander Konotopsky, made this statement. He attempted to explain to Shabunin that draft law No. 12089 was initiated and developed by the Business Support Council.

“We created it for business and at the request of the business community. This is an important step towards building a strong economy. It should be easy to build in Ukraine. Private property must be protected,” Konotopsky writes.

Shabunin accused the authors of the project, claiming that this document “helps developers legalize the most grotesque manipulations with state land.” He asserts that the proposed norms will complicate the process of property seizure for the state. “It seems that, in Shabunin's opinion, there can be no conscientious acquirers of state and communal property by definition,” writes “Law and Business.”

Konotopsky reminds that Ukraine has historically faced issues with private property, and one of the tactics used by raiders is to “start chasing the landowner for having somehow mismanaged the land’s transition from state ownership ten years ago.”

“If someone can come and take what a person has honestly purchased, they won’t buy anything… And as a result, nothing will be created. Such a country will turn into a desert,” Konotopsky believes.

He emphasized that the Business Support Council considers the draft law fundamental and important for the state's investment attractiveness. “And what if not? One can always return to the Soviet Union… Everything was state-owned there…” the businessman concludes.

As noted by “Law and Business,” “Shabunin already lives as if in communism: he has appropriated a Nissan Pathfinder SUV, which was provided as humanitarian aid for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and uses it whenever and wherever he wants without facing criminal charges unlike others.”

It is worth recalling that the State Bureau of Investigation (GBR) is investigating a number of criminal cases against Shabunin, particularly concerning evasion of mobilization, forgery of documents from the National Agency for Prevention of Corruption (NAPC), illegal use of humanitarian aid, and the appropriation of a Nissan Pathfinder SUV.

Previously, Shabunin criticized Christians for the lost value of marriage and the spread of AIDS due to unregulated sexual relationships.