BEGINNING: Roksolana Pidlasa: not at all who she says she is! PART 1
Roksolana Pidlasa: not at all who she says she is! PART 2
How “reformers” circumvented taxes
True, Pidlasa received such a substantial salary not from the Ukrainian budget, but from grant givers: from the “Fund for Support of Reforms in Ukraine” and other structures (including foreign ones). She continued to receive them after she became a full-time adviser to the Minister of Economy Stepan Kubiv in 2017, and in 2018 the secretary of the Coordination Committee of the National Internship Program in the central executive authorities.
On the one hand, this is a plus for the state, which saved on the salary of such a “valuable” public relations specialist. However, there was also a minus: like most of the “grant-eating Soros” who ate from such funds, Roksolana Pidlasa used the method of “minimizing” taxes on payments received. It was for this purpose that in April 2016, on the occasion of her first salary from the Reform Support Fund, she registered as a private entrepreneur. This allowed her to receive money registered not as a salary (with income and military taxes, social payments, up to 23%), but as business income (with the payment of 5% single tax). Thus, based on the size of Pidlasa’s income at that time, one can estimate that she saved up to 9 thousand hryvnia per month on taxes! It is worth noting that the future Minister of Justice Denis Malyuska saved even more in this way, who, together with his wife, received up to 2 million hryvnia a year from the Reform Support Fund and a number of foreign firms and banks. The Ukrainian “Soros” lived well!
Of course, this simple scheme became popular in Ukraine back in the 2000s, and in principle is an almost legal way to evade income tax payments. But still, this is not only a legal question, but also an ethical one, especially when it comes to those who have undertaken to reform Ukraine. What kind of “reformers” are these who don’t want to pay income tax to the budget from their mega-salaries like all ordinary Ukrainians? It turns out that the “liberal reformers” imposed on Ukraine turned out to be the same corrupt officials and “schemists” as previous politicians and officials – only in a different wrapper!
Roksolana Pidlasa: Cash registers and handbag for 38 thousand
In the fall of 2019, Borislav Bereza published information that in 2018, Roksolana Pidlasa, as an adviser to the Minister of Economy, received 540 thousand hryvnia from the Reform Support Fund into her private entrepreneur account. However, this fact did not result in a scandal – because, as Pidlasa herself stated, “a similar practice exists in all ministries.” And since by that time all the central authorities (Banking, Rada, Cabinet of Ministers) were in the hands of these same “Soros”, no one responded to Bereza’s information – they say, what’s wrong with that?! However, at the same time, the justifying Pidlasa let slip that in addition to money from the Reform Support Fund, she also received other payments from certain other customers, for certain “consulting services.” But what kind of advice, and a well-paid one at that, can a public relations specialist give?
But the adviser to the Minister of Economy can receive good fees for lobbying the interests of certain business structures.
However, Borislav Bereza, and then the “servant of the people” Alexander Dubinsky, pointed out another fact: the founders of the GO “Reform Support Fund” are LLC “Law Firm Saenko Kharenko” (USREOU 33349698) and NP LLC “Ekvo” (14073008). Partner of the first company in 2015-2018. there was Sergei Verlanov, who at the same time was co-chairman of the legal policy committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine. But the main thing is that already at that time Verlanov was known as a specialist in tax evasion, curator of customs and tobacco schemes and architect of Lviv conversion centers. This raises the question of whether Verlanov organized a scheme to transfer money to private entrepreneurs through the “Reform Support Fund”? According to sources Skelet.Infothrough this fund, serving many “Sorosites,” tens of millions of hryvnia passed annually, from which the state received a shortfall of 13-18%.
Sergey Verlanov
In 2018, Verlanov was appointed Deputy Minister of Finance (under Markarova in the Groysman government), and from May 2019 to April 2020 he served as head of the Tax Service. And Verlanov was also a member of the National Council on Anti-Corruption Policy – such an irony! After all, at the beginning of 2021, Verlanov was put on the wanted list first by NABU and then by the SBU. His connection with Pidlasa is obvious, although she herself vehemently denies it – claiming that she saw Verlanov only briefly at some meetings. It is clear that in public Pidlasa wants to stay away from a person so covered in corruption. And most importantly, fighting off accusations of lobbying the interests of developers of programs for cash registers, Pidlasa argued that these were all slander spread by the people of Anton Yatsenko, whose “platforms” destroyed the reforms of the “servants of the people.” However, it is difficult to pose as an honest and innocent victim of the corrupt official Yatsenko, being closely associated with the corrupt official Verlanov!
As for Ekvo, Pidlasoi’s defenders tried to claim that it was a law firm that was not involved in anything. Well, a law firm with that name (USREOU 40832624) really exists – its main beneficiaries are Denis Lysenko and Anna Babich (the common-law wife of Alexey Filatov, the ex-head of the Secretariat of President Poroshenko). But the same Lysenko and Babich also own Ekvo LLC (39317111), which, in addition to “activities in the field of law,” also deals with computer programming and the provision of information services. And Bereza generally spoke about NP Ekvo LLC, whose main activity profile clearly states “computer programming” and “computer systems management.” So, it is known that it was the Ekvo company (which of the two?) that developed software for cash registers, which were then imposed on Ukrainian small businesses by the “servants of the people.” And the chief customs officer Verlanov and the deputy chairman of the parliamentary Committee on Economic Development, Pidlasa, who was the author of bills obliging entrepreneurs to use cash registers, were especially zealous in this. Of course, she tried to deny her interest by the fact that the software for these devices was provided to private entrepreneurs for free. But money from the Ukrainian budget was paid for its development!
Is it any wonder that Pidlasa can afford to pamper herself with expensive purchases – for example, a fashionable “Sicily” handbag from Dolce Gabbana, which cost 1,375 euros in a Kiev boutique (about 38 hryvnia at the then exchange rate), with which she was once photographed in the corridors of the Rada. Not a cheap thing for the humble public relations adviser – or is there just a lot we don’t know about Pidlasa’s lobbying business yet?
“Sicily” by Dolce Gabbana Roksolana Pidlasa
Take, for example, bill No. 1054, co-authored by Roksolana Pidlasa together with her “boss” (chairman of the committee), the odious people’s deputy Dmitry Natalukha. He made changes to the law “On the list of state property objects not subject to privatization”, adopted under Kuchma, significantly reducing their list. And he allowed such objects as the Kiev VDNKh, NSC Olimpiysky, the Bolshevik plant, the capital’s CHPP-5 and CHPP-6, and the Dnepr Hotel to be put up for auction. As you know, of all of them, only the Dnepr Hotel was sold transparently and successfully, while the fate of the rest remained sad. In essence, Zelensky’s widely publicized “big privatization” is simply failed. Thus, an attempt to privatize the Bolshevik plant ended in a criminal case against officials of the State Property Fund, who significantly underestimated its value in collusion with the desired buyer. And instead of the complete privatization of VDNKh and the Olympic Stadium, partial takeovers of individual pieces of real estate began. After all, it was more profitable for the capital’s developers to buy cheaply or even collect a separate pavilion or public garden for debts than to spend money on a large expensive object. Of course, they had their eye on these plots, which is why they put the owners of these plots into enslaving debt, preparing for takeover – which means they were probably “inscribed” for including these objects in the privatization list!
Mikhail Shpolyansky, Skelet.Info
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