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In the morning of September 15, the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) was reported conducting searches in the premises belonging to Kharkiv Mayor Hennadiy Kernes and the mother of MP Mykhailo Dobkin.
Dozens of searches are announced to be carried out. A total of 100 employees of the PGO and the SBU had earlier arrived in the city for the raid, said Ukrainian Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko, according to his press secretary Larysa Sargan.
The searches are conducted in connection with a criminal case into the organization of a theft scheme of 654 hectares of land in Kharkiv worth UAH 4 billion.
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Another individual subject to criminal proceedings resisted the law enforcers' actions, and a special Alfa task force was called in.