The National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption exposed the former Chief of the Main Directorate of the State Tax Service in Ternopil Oblast in unreliable declaration for a total amount of more than UAH 22.5 million. The detected violations concern the declarations for 2022 and 2023.
According to the NAPC report, in the declaration for 2022 the person involved did not specify the property for more than UAH 13.2 million, and in the document for 2023-for more than 9.3 million UAH.
In particular, the official hid information about two residential buildings of 296 m² and 64.6 m², which formally belong to his mother, but were actually used by him and his family. Also, the land plots on which these objects are located were not indicated.
The former official denied that he used the property, but the NAPC, along with the State Bureau of Investigation, gathered evidence of the opposite. It is established that the owner of the houses - his mother - did not actually live in them and did not use them.
According to the results of the inspection of the NACC, the conclusions about the signs of a criminal offense under Part 2 of Art. 366-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (false declaration) and submitted materials to the DBR, which conducts a pre-trial investigation.