{"id":1298814,"date":"2025-09-29T12:41:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T09:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/a-prominent-ukrainian-blogger-has-been-charged-with-tax-evasion\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T12:41:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T09:41:48","slug":"a-prominent-ukrainian-blogger-has-been-charged-with-tax-evasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/a-prominent-ukrainian-blogger-has-been-charged-with-tax-evasion\/","title":{"rendered":"A prominent Ukrainian blogger has been charged with tax evasion."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"145\" data-end=\"316\"><strong>The Bureau of Economic Security and the Kyiv City Prosecutor&#8217;s Office have reported suspicions against Ukrainian blogger Sofia Stuzhuk for tax evasion totaling nearly 11.5 million hryvnias.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-start\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ESBU.GOV.UA\/posts\/pfbid02hEoYgS9F6ycd8uaWMLsYozpTYCgY7wC3Mnf4QXBELLXxzZdgZUuWfwngKqqn68iFl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">The Bureau of Economic Security<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kyiv.gp.gov.ua\/posts\/pfbid02A3r5uSiKb9p3cMEDCmu4GASEcd6jmFG1Fdwr6umXvUbkkThyW2Aw7VxHTwxr5iwFl?locale=uk_UA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">the Kyiv City Prosecutor&#8217;s Office<\/a> reported this.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"318\" data-end=\"580\"> According to investigators, she received significant income from social media advertising over five years but failed to report it in her tax returns. As a result, the budget lost approximately 10.5 million hryvnias in income tax and almost 900,000 hryvnias in military tax.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"582\" data-end=\"711\"> Since Stuzhuk has been living abroad since the outbreak of full-scale war, she was charged in absentia under Part 3 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"713\" data-end=\"1104\"> The prosecutor&#8217;s office also recalled that the blogger, with a multi-million audience, refrained from commenting in the first days of the invasion and subsequently made contradictory statements. Specifically, in 2022, she wrote that massive Russian strikes on Ukraine were allegedly &#8220;a consequence of Ukrainians&#8217; joy at the attacks on Russia and the Crimean Bridge,&#8221; and also promoted Russian bloggers, targeting a Russian audience.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"713\" data-end=\"1104\"> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"713\" data-end=\"1104\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bureau of Economic Security and the Kyiv City Prosecutor&#8217;s Office have reported suspicions against Ukrainian blogger Sofia Stuzhuk for tax evasion totaling nearly 11.5 million hryvnias. The Bureau of Economic Security and the Kyiv City Prosecutor&#8217;s Office reported this. According to investigators, she received significant income from social media advertising over five years but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1298805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1298814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1298814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1298805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1298814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}