MOSCOW, June 5 (RAPSI) - A Ukrainian court ruled that a land plot at the Sinegora residence in Ivano-Frankivsk Region owned by ousted president Viktor Yanukovych be nationalised, RIA Novosti reported on Friday, citing Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office.

According to the agency, Yanukovych and his associates privatized the land using forged village council resolutions.

The Prosecutor General’s Office said the property, a permanent asset of the State Business Administration, was used to build cottages. The regional prosecutor’s office filed four lawsuits to return the land that was part of a nature reserve. The lawsuits have now been upheld and the property will be returned to the state.

After a coup in February 2014, Yanukovych was forced to leave Ukraine. The Ukrainian parliament voted to return the ex-president’s residence, in Mezhygorye, to the state. Later, Yanukovych claimed that he bought the house in Mezhygorye for $3.2 million and that he had declared this to tax officials. The Economic Court of the Kiev Region upheld the lawsuits by the prosecutor’s office and ruled that residence ownership be transferred back to the state.