Kateryna Ryzhenkova is a top taxpayer, director of the Department of Transfer Pricing of the DPS, as it turned out, she has Russian citizenship and pays taxes in the Russian Federation.
360ua.news writes about this .
Kateryna Ryzhenkova is a protégé of Danylo Hetmantsev, chairman of the VRU Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy. According to our sources, Same Getmantsev is currently trying to prevent a full-fledged inspection by the SBU of Kateryna Rezhinkova's activities after 2014.
The Department of Transfer Pricing, which is currently headed by Kateryna Ryzhenkova, according to its functionality, is actually the Department of Financial Intelligence of the Tax Service of Ukraine. It contains a database of all legal entities and individuals, that is, each of us and any company that makes money transfers to and from Ukraine. All money that crosses the border of Ukraine in any direction is under the control of this Department and the people who work there.
, a part of the document, which was presented as an analytical report from the SBU, regarding the cooperation of part of Danylo Hetmantsev's team from the Russian Federation, was leaked to journalists
It is worth noting that this document in itself, although it may be of considerable interest to those who are familiar with the situation, does not prove anything. But the facts revealed in the further investigation clearly indicate the connection of Kateryna Ryzhenkova with the special services of the Russian Federation.
So let's start with a detailed analysis of the text of the document:
"Available information indicates that high-ranking officials of the DPS of Ukraine have established a mechanism for systematically receiving undue benefits from representatives of large businesses for resolving the issue of not holding the latter accountable for violating tax legislation.
It was established that the Director of the Transfer Pricing Department of the State Tax Service of Ukraine Kateryna Volodymyrivna Ryzhenkova (born August 25, 1986) was involved in the specified illegal activity.
Ryzhenkova K.V. patron of Hetmantseva D.O. Since she is a native of the Republic of Crimea, in conversations with her close circle she supports armed aggression on the part of the Russian Federation and hopes for the return of the old government to the leadership of the country.
Maintains relationships and owes his career advancement to tax officials from O.V. Klymenko's team. (ex-minister fugitive from the Yanukovych era - ed.)
Ryzhenkova K.V. abusing his official position, initiates inspections of business entities for compliance with tax legislation on transfer pricing in order to obtain funds from the heads of commercial structures for solving issues related to non-prosecution of them as a result of detected violations.
Communication with business is carried out, in particular, through S.S. Stetsyuk. (nephew of Yuzhanina N.P., in the previous convocation, chairman of the VRU Committee on Tax and Customs Policy).
Special attention should be noted that Stetsyuk S.S. is the founder of ALDO LLC (IDRPOU code 23730103, the company is related to businessman Vagif Aliyev) and represents the interests of a number of commercial structures that have close ties with the aggressor country:
- business interests of companies Alieva V.A. (has citizenship of the Russian Federation);
- business interests of D.V. Firtash companies;
- group "VS Energy International In the country";
- Private enterprise "Dniprospestal" (EDRPOU code 00186536, one of the owners V.V. Medvedchuk is on the sanction lists);
- LLC "Khimvektor" (EDRPOU code 41556090);
- "Agroterminal Konstrakshin" LLC (EDRPOU code 39838125);
- "Bilopil Elevator" LLC (EDRPOU code 35943861);
- "Green Heat Bilopylla" LLC (EDRPOU code 38207708);
- LLC "Agrarian Company Forward" (EDRPOU code 38739629);
- U Online LLC (EDRPOU code 37589984);
- "Plarium Kyiv" LLC (EDPOU code 39071634)."
As you can see, the accusations against Kateryna Ryzhenkova are quite serious, which also affect the reputation of the companies specified in the reference, with the prospect of imposing sanctions against them, provided for by Ukrainian legislation.
In Kateryna Ryzhenkova's public declaration, property in the Leninsky district of Crimea, in the village of Kurortne, appears from year to year. And this is logical, given the fact that Kateryna Ryzhenkova comes from Crimea.
, only citizens of the Russian Federation can own real estate in Crimea . That is, the possession of such property presupposes the presence of Russian citizenship. There can be no exceptions. And accordingly, taxes must be paid to the budget of the Russian Federation for owning property.
Journalists find on the website of the Federal Tax Service of Russia. For this, it was enough to simply enter the data of Kateryna Ryzhenkova - and we immediately receive a Russian identification code, a seal with a double-headed eagle.
Having in hand the personal Russian identification code of a high-ranking Ukrainian official, we remind you, the director of the financial intelligence department of the tax service of Ukraine, it is easy to check the payment of taxes to the budget of Russia.
As you can see, according to data from Russian registers, Kateryna Ryzhenkova has a small debt of 7 thousand rubles. The amount is small, which means that taxes to the budget are paid regularly.
According to the Unified State Register of Real Estate and Real Estate Rights of the Russian Federation, Kateryna Ryzhenkova is registered in the city of Kerch at Zhenya Dudnyk Street, 37. This is not the place indicated in the public Ukrainian declaration. Kurortne and Kerch are different places.
According to the registry of the Russian Federation, Kateryna Ryzhenkova has five real estate properties in the occupied Crimea. This is the land and houses with which she carries out all kinds of manipulations, receives, rewrites, etc. All these objects are not specified in the Ukrainian declaration .
The house on Zhenya Dudnyk Street, 37 attracts special attention. Digging through the documents of the city occupation administration of Kerch, journalists found an order that two months before the full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine, Kateryna Ryzhenkova was allocated land for development. This fact confirms that its activity is not limited to property ownership.
In 2019, the city occupation council of Kerch voted to allocate land, but the order was signed only at the end of November 2021. At the beginning of 2023, the house was built, valued at 2 million rubles and entered into Russian registers. Thus, Kateryna Ryzhenkova received an official residence permit in a house in the occupied territory.
Of course, there are no Russian documents confirming the ownership of these objects in the Ukrainian declarations of the top tax official. This, of course, is a gross violation of the anti-corruption legislation of Ukraine.
Also an interesting point - according to the Ukrainian declaration, Lyudmila Povzun is a member of Kateryna Ryzhenkova's family. Open Russian sources indicate that Lyudmila Povzun has a Russian passport and an identification code, and also owns businesses in Crimea that receive federal subsidies from the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. On the website of the Ministry of Tourism of Crimea, Lyudmila Povzun is listed in the list of grant recipients for 2024.
Separately, it is worth paying attention to the data on the border crossing by Kateryna Ryzhenkova. According to the information of the border service of Russia, back in 2014, on August 15, using her Ukrainian documents, she crossed the checkpoint "Armyansk" and entered the territory of the aggressor country. 11 days later, on August 26, she returned through the same checkpoint. Another two months later, on October 10, 2014, Kateryna Ryzhenkova crossed the border again through the Dzhankoy checkpoint.
Here is an important point: she made all these movements under her Ukrainian passport. However, after October 10, 2014, she no longer crossed the border with the Russian Federation according to Ukrainian documents. A logical question arises: under what document did she leave the territory of Russia? It is likely that Kateryna Ryzhenkova received a Russian passport and uses it to travel.
But how did Kateryna Ryzhenkova with such a biography manage to get a job in the civil service and also head the Department, which actually deals with financial intelligence of the Ukrainian Tax Service?
According to the official biography kept by the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, in the same October 2014, when Kateryna Ryzhenkova was in Crimea, she suddenly disappears from there and literally immediately receives a managerial position in the tax service of the Darnytskyi district of Kyiv.
In exactly one year, in 2015, she became the second person in the tax Zhytomyr region. From 2015 to 2019, she worked there, then transferred to Kyiv, and in December 2021 was appointed head of the transfer pricing department. This Department was specially created under her leadership.
Thus, in December 2021, Tetyana Kiriyenko, who serves as the head of the Tax Service of Ukraine, created a new department by her order. The main task of the department is declared to be "control of foreign companies and contact with foreign control bodies".
In practice, this means that the financial intelligence department is created two months before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and its leadership is transferred to a resident of Russia - Kateryna Ryzhenkova.
Since 2022, Kateryna Ryzhenkova has been actively interacting with the state treasuries of the USA, the ministries of finance of Lithuania and Austria, as well as with representatives of the state bodies of Moldova, Georgia, the World Bank and international organizations in Turkey. She makes all these contacts on behalf of the state of Ukraine.
What is remarkable is that Kateryna Ryzhenkova behaves arrogantly, both with colleagues in the service and with representatives of foreign countries, often violating the established norms of behavior for an official of her level representing Ukraine. In this context, it is worth noting how Ryzhenkova came to the official event in a sports suit. This behavior of the official caused a stir in social networks.
In these photos, in addition to the "sports suit" of the heroine, the editors of our publication were interested in the emblem of the Legal Group company in the upper right corner, which quite often appears at official events with the participation of Kateryna Ryzhenkova. In this context, we return again to the figure of the above-mentioned Serhiy Stetsyuk.
It will be about one network called ID Legal Group. Oleg Dobrovolskyi is a key figure in JSC ID Legal Group. He is the former boss of Tetyana Kiriyenko (currently acting head of the DPS of Ukraine) and Kateryna Ryzhenkova.
Another key figure in JSC ID Legal Group is Anna Ignatenko. She is a former colleague of Tetyana Kiriyenko and Kateryna Ryzhenkova, and the same Oleg Dobrovolskyi in the tax department. In the same team as them, Olga Lishchynska is the head of the tax department of Kyiv.
In this scheme, Serhii Stetsyuk acts as a lawyer-decisive, the so-called "runner" of Yevhen Sokur and Danylo Hetmantsev. We remind you that we already wrote earlier how Hetmantsev's protégé Yevgeny Sokur blackmails business, demanding bribes , and before Tetyana Kiriyenko's work as the head of the DPS, questions arose , including from our American partners.
Together, they built a corruption vertical in the DPS and help to evade paying taxes, and also help to operate a Russian business that is under the sanctions of the National Security Council, which belongs to Putin's godfather - Viktor Medvedchuk, Vagif Aliyev, Dmitry Firtash and other "odious and sanctioned persons.
Kateryna Ryzhenkova regularly organizes public events together with friends and former colleagues who are currently at JSC ID Legal Group. Repeating many times to everyone that these lawyers are people close to her and "she can carry the dragonfly only through them."
In the future, using her official position, Kateryna Ryzhenkova creates "problems" for the business, which is hinted at a public event and "competent" lawyers. So it is not surprising that the majority of clients of this JSC ID Legal Group are companies that evade paying taxes through Ryzhenkova's Department or tax officials of the city of Kyiv, who will later transfer their registration to the coverage area of the GU DPS in the city of Kyiv.
It is worth noting that Anna Ignatenko meets several times a week with the management of the DPS State Administration in the city of Kyiv, to settle various "nuances". By the way, the cameras of the safe city at the entrance to the premises do not record the regular appearance of Ignatenko.
Olga Lishchynska is absolutely satisfied with such a schedule of "sliding" - she needs "reliable intermediaries", because she is from Volyn, so she does not have enough contacts to build such a corruption scheme on her own. At the same time, Lishchynska in the role of "pound" attracted Serhiy Kondratyuk, who was previously her deputy and head of the Commission on Risks.
It is worth noting that according to preliminary estimates, more than 50% of all bribes in the tax office of Kyiv "come" through Anna Ignatenko, Oleg Dobrovolskyi, Serhii Stetsyuk - with the assistance of Kateryna Ryzhenkova.
That is, at a time when Kateryna Ryzhenkova herself owns property in the occupied Crimea and pays taxes to the budget of the Russian Federation, hundreds of Ukrainian companies suffer from corruption schemes built with her participation.
