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The Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) and other central executive agencies of Ukraine are to investigate the activities of officials from the district administration, judges and law enforcers to check whether the law was broken in the conflict over control over the Kyiv-based Ukraina department store.

This decision was approved during a meeting of the inter-departmental commission for preventing illegal mergers and seizure of enterprises, chaired by Ukrainian First Vice Premier Andriy Kliuyev, which took place on Feb. 9, according to the government’s press service.

According to the commission, in 2011 the rights of the majority shareholder of the department store, Swedish company Quinn Holdings Sweden AB, which owns a 92.7515% stake in the store’s the statutory fund, were violated.

"In November 2011, a group of people illegally seized control of the department store," the commission said.

As a result of such actions, all property of Quinn Holdings Sweden AB on the territory of Ukraine, including the Ukraina department store, was arrested.

In addition, according to the commission, a decision to change the director that was made at four meetings of shareholders and the supervisory board was not fulfilled.

The newly appointed head cannot enter the department store’s offices. The previous management of the department store has refused to pass him the stamps and documents of the company.

"This was possible because the Economic Court of Kyiv issued seven instructions that forbid amending the Single State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs," reads the statement.

In addition, the commission said that the former management of the department store is trying to obtain $45 million from the company via using forged documents.