Acting protégé of Daniil Getmantsev Head of the State Tax Service of Ukraine Tatyana Kiriyenko may resign, following the scandalous Minister of Defense Alexei Reznikov. The website 360UA.NEWS reports this in its investigation.
According to media reports, the reasons for the probable resignation of Tatyana Kiriyenko and Alexey Reznikov are similar: the demands of Western partners in connection with general corruption and incompetence. The issue of Tatyana Kiriyenko’s resignation appeared on the agenda after the visit to Kyiv of the US President’s Special Representative for Ukraine Penny Pritzker.
Pritzker, in a private conversation with representatives of the Ukrainian establishment, advised not to wait for help from the West, but to “start looking for points of growth within the country.”
In other words, to establish order in the tax administration system of the Ukrainian economy, which was able to withstand wartime conditions. According to Penny Pritzker, the Ukrainian authorities should now think about filling the budget from internal sources, which will be difficult to do without changing the leadership of the tax service.
As investigative journalists from 360UA.NEWS note, Ukrainian society also has questions for Daniil Getmantsev: “as our source in the SBU reports, this does not mean that Getmantsev is an FSB agent in the classical sense; in fact, in the current conditions of counterintelligence activities this is impossible.
Another thing is Getmantsev’s influence on the Ukrainian tax system, and accordingly on the economy, which suffers losses not only from military operations, but also from extortions from tax authorities, while the budget is not receiving colossal funds necessary to finance the front and maintain a stable social situation. So, from this point of view, we can say that Getmantsev’s actions are beneficial to the Russian Federation.
An analogy can be drawn here when the Russians hit Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, achieving similar goals.”
