Head of Kyiv tax service suspected of illegal multi-million-dollar transactions

Law enforcement agencies of Ukraine have exposed the acting head of the Kyiv tax service Oksana Datiy on abuse of power and official position, Report informs referring to RBC-Ukraine.

Datiy is also the head of Commission for Stopping Tax Invoice Registration/Adjustment Calculation in the Unified Register of Tax Invoices of the Main Directorate of the State Tax Service in Kyiv. She, along with other members of the commission, without legal grounds, made a decision on compliance or non-compliance with the criteria for the riskiness of taxpayers, which led to serious consequences.

In addition, she implemented through her proxies schemes for artificially inflating costs by some enterprises, doing business without registration and providing false information about income. According to experts, more than 15 billion hryvnias fell into the shadow circulation.

In another episode, the leadership of the Main Directorate of the State Tax Service in Kyiv is involved in schemes for illegally obtaining VAT refunds, as a result of which more than 30 billion hryvnias ($818 million) fell into the shadow circulation.