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In all documents the building is listed as warehouses, and there is no mention of a hotel or place to stay people.
Either in the same document there’s no mention that the building should be hotel / photo SES

Hotel “Tokyo star” in Odessa, where a fire killed nine people, according to the documents filed from the building of the tram depot at the “warehouse”.

This was stated by the Deputy Director of the Department of GASI in the Odessa region Igor Cherkasov, writes “Duma”.

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“So we went back and found the five declarations that were issued by the state Inspectorate of architecture and construction control, eliminated in 2014. All declarations specified warehouses, and there is no mention of a hotel or place to stay people,” said Cherkasov.

According to him, after the elimination of the inspection a part of his powers transferred to the Department of GASI in the Odessa region, and in 2016 the management of GASK of the Odessa city Council. And during these two years, no cases or complaints, and statements about the renovations to the hotel were reported.

In turn, the publication said that from June 2011 to April 2014, the chief of inspection state architecturally-construction control in the Odessa region was Peter Ryabokon – current Vice-mayor of Odessa.

He confirmed that the Declaration was served on the premises.

“Man brings a Declaration of non-residential premises. So they have been all my life non-residential premises. Phrases about the intended use and renovation as a hotel was not there. When there were a hotel, I don’t know,” said Ryabokon.

As UNIAN reported earlier, on the night of August 17 the Odessa hotel “Tokyo star” was a fire. 9 people were killed, 9 were hospitalized. Today it became known that among victims – the child and the Australian citizen.

Law enforcement officers (in order St. 208 criminal procedure code of Ukraine detained the owner of the hotel “Tokyo Star”, well-known businessman Vadim Black. He was informed about the suspicion of a crime under part 2 of article 270 (infringement of requirements of fire security, entailed death of people) the Criminal code of Ukraine.