Nataliya Kiyashko, the head of the Sumy region's tax service, became the subject of a corruption investigation after several serious violations and financial frauds. It turned out that she illegally left Ukraine in January-April 2022, having access to state secrets, and did not pass border control, which is a direct violation of the border crossing procedure.
Another scandal is the financial history of Kiyashko, who flew to the US four times in 2023, spending more than 200 days in the states of Georgia and Florida. At the same time, her official income for the year was only 209 thousand hryvnias, which clearly does not correspond to the costs of such regular flights and long stays abroad.
In addition, according to the investigation, she hides real estate in the village of Khotyanivka, Vyshgorod district, and also has relatives with dual citizenship. There is also evidence of financial fraud with enterprises, in particular, Kiyashko, together with his deputy Oleksiy Mazurenko, forced the management of PJSC “Sumy Food Products Plant” to submit false tax reports, which allowed the enterprise to remain registered with the local tax service, instead of transferring to the Office of Large Taxpayers.
Currently, an official investigation into the facts of illicit enrichment and abuse of power is underway against Kiyashko and Mazurenko.
