{"id":1439742,"date":"2026-09-15T10:59:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T07:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/e75-thousand-from-business-nabu-exposed-corruption-scheme-in-tax-office\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T11:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T08:00:44","slug":"e75-thousand-from-business-nabu-exposed-corruption-scheme-in-tax-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/e75-thousand-from-business-nabu-exposed-corruption-scheme-in-tax-office\/","title":{"rendered":"\u20ac75 thousand from business: NABU exposed corruption scheme in tax office"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Ternopil region, NABU and SAPO have exposed two tax officials suspected of systematically receiving bribes from businesses. According to the investigation, they received \u20ac75,000 and demanded 11.5% for VAT refunds.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was reported<\/a> by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

According to the investigation, the deputy head of the Main Department of the State Tax Service in Ternopil region and the head of one of the territorial divisions established a scheme to earn money based on the results of tax audits.<\/p>\n

Officials allegedly discovered multimillion-dollar violations at companies, and then offered to significantly reduce the amounts of fines in official documents in exchange for a reward.<\/p>\n

During the spring and summer of 2026, they, according to the investigation, received \u20ac75,000 in illegal benefits<\/strong> from a representative of two companies.<\/p>\n\t

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In June, officials also demanded an 11.5% \u201ckickback\u201d<\/strong> from another company for unhindered budget VAT reimbursement in the amount of over 14.6 million hryvnias<\/strong> .<\/p>\n

While transferring money through an intermediary, law enforcement officers uncovered the scheme. The deputy head of the Ternopil region’s traffic police department and her subordinate were detained.<\/p>\n

Both were reported under suspicion under Part 4 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Law enforcement officers are also investigating the possible involvement of other officials of the regional tax service.<\/p>\n

Recall that previously, NABU conducted searches at the tax service<\/a> as part of an investigation into events related to risky enterprises.<\/p>\n

Also recently, NABU and SAPO exposed a corruption scheme led by an official of the Prosecutor General’s Office<\/a> . According to the investigation, its participants systematically received bribes from fraudulent call centers.<\/p>\n

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In Ternopil region, NABU and SAPO have exposed two tax officials suspected of systematically receiving bribes from businesses. According to the investigation, they received \u20ac75,000 and demanded 11.5% for VAT refunds. This was reported by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine. According to the investigation, the deputy head of the Main Department of the State […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1439723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76875],"class_list":["post-1439742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439742","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439744,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439742\/revisions\/1439744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1439723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}