This whole event was being held on municipal property.
According to the prosecution, he transferred some municipal property to a private company when he didn't have the power to do so.
At the same time, many businesses were privatized or became municipal property.
The building itself remained municipal property until 1995, when the company finally purchased it from the local administration.
Once it became municipal property, the site would have been tax exempt.
But bundling all of a city's municipal property for such a contract is a relatively new phenomenon.
Except for the houses numbered 15, 20, 24 and 33, all houses are municipal property.
The building, which was municipal property was purchased by locals and turned into a house.
The 81,000-square-foot plot of land has been municipal property since 1895, when it was used for a trolley barn.
It 1935 it became municipal property, and in 1950-1952 was converted to a public park.