Tayana Kozachenko
The director of the lustration department of the Ministry of Justice, Tatyana Kozachenko, submitted an inaccurate declaration of property, income, expenses and financial liabilities for 2014. This is discussed in the report of a criminal offense filed by independent journalist Boris Rechuk addressed to the director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau Artem Sytnik.
The statement notes that Kozachenko lent more than 10 million hryvnia to a certain citizen Boyko on the security of a store on Shota Rustaveli Street, 1/12 in Kyiv. Kozachenko’s declared level of income and property status do not allow him to carry out such operations, the journalist claims. The statement also says that Kozachenko underestimated the amount of her salary by 6 thousand UAH and hid the receipt of social payments in the amount of 8.6 thousand UAH.
Rechuk accuses Tatyana Kozachenko not only of publishing an inaccurate declaration, but also of tax evasion. He writes that the official did not pay taxes on income from the sale of corporate rights in the amount of more than 2 million hryvnia. In addition, in 2014, Kozachenko illegally combined her post in the Ministry of Justice with the status of a private entrepreneur for several months and, after the liquidation of the private entrepreneur, did not repay the debt on a single contribution in the amount of 5,500 hryvnia.
Numerous scandals are associated with the name of Tatyana Kozachenko. In April 2015, investigators from the Ministry of Internal Affairs searched her home and work in search of a forged document – allegedly a letter from the Ministry of Justice, which allowed her to avoid lustration. Earlier on the Versiya website it was already reported that Kozachenko’s income from business increased to UAH 3 million after she became assistant to the Minister of Justice. And Procurator’s Truth drew attention to the fact that the country’s chief lustrator herself went through the lustration procedure with great difficulty for more than six months, because the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Security Service of Ukraine and the tax authorities could not immediately confirm her cleanliness before the law. It was also reported about the official’s possible involvement in scams involving real estate and credit funds from a Latvian bank.
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