Audit of Poroshenko family company years after taxes: why now

The tax inspector came to inspect the Central European confectionery company of the family of the fifth President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, in a case regarding tax payments for a period of about ten years ago.

This is mentioned in the story of the “Pryamiy” TV channel.

According to journalists, tax officials are checking transactions for 2018. At the same time, it is noted that the statute of limitations for this period expired seven years ago, and the tax office itself had previously conducted relevant checks and drawn up reports without comments.

The story also notes that the corporation paid all taxes and additionally transferred over 800 million hryvnias according to the previous order.

Lawyer Ilya Novikov, in a comment to the “Pryamiy” TV channel, stated that the legislation does not allow an audit of 2018 transactions in 2026.

According to him, he views the current situation as a continuation of political pressure on Petro Poroshenko.

Novikov also stated that the tax authorities have now joined other law enforcement agencies conducting proceedings against the fifth president.

The lawyer linked the situation to the events surrounding officials of the President’s Office and stated that the state mechanisms, which, according to him, were used to gain control over other people’s assets, are now also being used to pressure the political opposition.

We will remind that the chairwoman of the Supreme Court’s panel of judges in the Administrative Court of Cassation, Olesya Radyshevska, believes that the sanctions against Poroshenko are illegal and should be canceled . She set out her arguments in a separate opinion to the court’s decision, which rejected the fifth President’s lawsuit by three votes.